It is the second time in just over a year that Safeen Rashid Qadir has been convicted of claiming benefits he was not entitled to.
The 38-year-old appeared before South East Suffolk Magistrates Court on charges of failing to declare earnings while in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.
Qadir first appeared before magistrates for benefit fraud offences in November 2010.
On that occasion he was found guilty of failing to declare to the benefit paying agencies that he was working. Qadir was sentenced to a 200 hours unpaid work order for that conviction.
However, during his latest court appearance magistrates heard Qadir had since been working full-time at a chicken processing plant at Witham in Essex.
While employed there he was earning in excess of £200 a week. However, despite being in employment he continued to sign-on as unemployed.
As a result he claimed and received the full job seekers allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit.
In total, Qadir, received over £13,500 in state benefits to which he was not entitled. The money will now be recovered from him by Ipswich Borough Council and the DWP.
Oh yes? Did they get the last lot back?
Sentencing Qadir to eight weeks in prison, the magistrates said that he had no respect for this country or its benefit system
After Qadir was jailed, a spokesman for Ipswich Borough Council said:
This should serve as a warning to others who attempt to defraud the benefit system.But Ipswich council still doled the money out.
This was a particularly serious case as it was not the first time Mr Qadir had falsely claimed benefits.
We believe the sentence shows the courts also share our view and will take matters such as this very seriously.
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