A woman has been given a suspended jail sentence after she admitted fraudulently claiming more than £32,000 benefits.
Nicola Finch, 31, failed to disclose she was working while claiming the cash for four years.
She was sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 180 hours’ unpaid work, when she appeared at Manchester Crown Court.
She had pleaded guilty to dishonestly obtaining housing and council tax benefits, and income support, between April 2005 and March last year.
Investigators uncovered the offences using data-matching exercises designed to detect fraudulent and incorrect benefits payments.
But for four years it seems to have been easy. How much more of this is going on?
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