A woman has been ordered to carry out 170 hours unpaid work after being convicted of a £33,000 benefit fraud.
Ann Barrett, 31, pleaded guilty to claiming £33,426.36 in housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support she wasn't entitled to between March 2005 and October 2008.
She failed to declare she was living with her partner.
Barrett, of Herne Street, Openshaw, was given a nine month jail sentence suspended for 12 months at Manchester Magistrates’ Court as well as being ordered to complete 170 hours of unpaid work over a 12-month period.
The council’s counter fraud officers working together with colleagues from the Department for Work and Pensions uncovered the offences following a data matching exercises designed to detect fraudulent and incorrect payments of benefit.
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