Tina Turner, 39, of Colorado Close, Dover appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on 7 April 2010 and was charged under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 after pleading guilty to three separate benefit offences. She was sentenced to an 8 month custodial sentence suspended for 12 months and 240 hours of unpaid work.
She had claimed Income Support, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit as a single parent when in fact she had been living with a partner since September 2002. She failed to declare this to the Department of Works and Pensions or Dover District Council. The total overpayment of benefit was in the region of £56,000.
Dover District Council will recover the overpaid Housing and Council Tax Benefit paid.
Benefit Fraud
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
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