Suzannah Lorton, from Broadstairs, has been given a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years and ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work. She admitted claiming £21,648 worth of extra child benefits and tax credits while she worked cash-in-hand as a carer. She also pretended to be living alone when she was actually living with her husband.
Along the coast, Alexander Lindsay from Hove cheated taxpayers out of almost £19,000. He was given a nine month prison sentence on six counts of housing benefit and council tax benefit fraud dating back to 2003, each sentence to run concurrently but suspended for two years. As part of the sentence Mr Lindsay will have to carry out 250 hours unpaid work and pay £1,000 costs. He has repaid almost £15,500 to the council; the rest is being recovered from him.
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