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09/01/2009
Crackdown On Benefit Fraudsters Continues
A Belfast man convicted of fraudulently claiming over £50,000 in benefits has escaped jail.
Stanley Lyons was given a six month sentence suspended for 18 months on each of five charges when he appeared at Belfast Crown Court. The 62-year-old from Cliftondene in the north of the city claimed Jobseekers Allowance and rates rebates totalling £52,035 while failing to declare he had capital.
The Department of Social Development said Mr Lyons is required by the court to repay the entire amount he fraudulently claimed.
Meanwhile a Banbridge woman who claimed more than £2,700 in Income Support and Housing Benefit, while failing to disclose she was employed was given a conditional discharge suspended for two years when she appealed at Newry Magistrates Court.
Tanya Margaret Hughes, 36, of The Mews, Banbridge, is also required to repay the money to the Social Security Agency.
The Department is continuing the drive against fraudsters which it intensified last year and so far this year convictions are running at a rate of more than one a day.
(BMcC/JM)
Stanley Lyons was given a six month sentence suspended for 18 months on each of five charges when he appeared at Belfast Crown Court. The 62-year-old from Cliftondene in the north of the city claimed Jobseekers Allowance and rates rebates totalling £52,035 while failing to declare he had capital.
The Department of Social Development said Mr Lyons is required by the court to repay the entire amount he fraudulently claimed.
Meanwhile a Banbridge woman who claimed more than £2,700 in Income Support and Housing Benefit, while failing to disclose she was employed was given a conditional discharge suspended for two years when she appealed at Newry Magistrates Court.
Tanya Margaret Hughes, 36, of The Mews, Banbridge, is also required to repay the money to the Social Security Agency.
The Department is continuing the drive against fraudsters which it intensified last year and so far this year convictions are running at a rate of more than one a day.
(BMcC/JM)
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