By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-03-26 12:11:43 | Updated at 2025-03-29 14:04:31
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A benefit cheat received £42,000 after she lied about her husband living with her in order to fund her holidays.
Joanne Fegan, 51, pocketed the benefits over a four year period after she lied on 17 documents about her living arrangements.
The North Yorkshire woman failed to register with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) that she had a partner who lived with her between September 2019 and July 2023.
Despite writing to the DWP that two of her children had left home, she still defrauded the department out of £42,636.80.
The North Yorkshire woman failed to register with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) that she had a partner who lived her
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“A lifestyle which was not one of want or hunger or lack of basic human resources but one which funded your ability to take foreign holidays.”
The 51-year-old must also carry out over 200 hours of unpaid work as part of her sentence.
Earlier this month, a 61-year-old man admitted to benefit fraud which resulted in him receiving nearly £30,000 worth of overpayments.
John Alan East pleaded guilty to three counts of benefit fraud committed over a six-year period.
She defrauded the department out of £42,636.80
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He appeared before magistrates on Thursday, March 6, where the court heard he had failed to declare a pension while receiving income support.
The fraud involved East failing to declare a change of circumstances on 308 separate occasions.
East, who lives on Tower Road in Ramsey, will now be sentenced next month after a probation report has been prepared.
