Jail for £70k benefit fraud

A man has been sent to jail for 10 months after falsely claiming £70,000 in benefits over eight years, even though he had a job.

Samuel Johnson, 52, from High Wycombe, pleaded guilty to failing to notify notifiable change of circumstances.

He fraudulently claimed £33,739 in housing and council tax benefit from Wycombe District Council and £36,931 in incapacity benefit from the the Department for Works and Pensions.

Johnson had been claiming benefits for more than eight years but failed to declare his 36 hours a week £20,000 a year job on his benefit claim.