A benefits cheat has been jailed after fraudulently claiming nearly £70,000 in benefits over six years.
Following an extensive investigation by the council’s benefit investigations team, Sohail Uddin, 41, was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison at Chester Crown Court.
Uddin, from Crewe pleaded guilty to the charges on November 17.
The overpayment of £68,406 was in relation to the time he worked as a night-shift warehouse operative while claiming benefits from the Department of Work and Pensions and Cheshire East Council between January 13, 2003 and September 20, 2009.
Uddin fraudulently claimed income support, severe disablement benefit, housing benefit and council tax benefit.
Pretty much a full house. And this went undetected for six years.
The council and the Department for Work and Pensions will seek to recover in full the overpayment of benefits to Uddin.
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