Cheating woman to pay back £104,000 in 93 years

A woman who cheated by pretending to be a single mum and accepted £104,000 in benefits in Britain has been directed to pay back £22 per week for 93 years.

The 47-year-old woman was living with her ex-husband and meanwhile, she accepted support in the name of a single mother bringing up four children.

She received more than £11,000 every year for more than 10 years in income support, housing benefit, council tax relief and child tax credits, Daily Mail reports.

Once she was caught lying, further investigations revealed that she got back with her divorced husband soon after the ink dried on their divorce papers. However, the couple did not inform the authorities of their change in status.

The woman obviously got off lightly as she would be able to pay off the entire money she claimed in benefits in the last decade, only by the time she reaches the hypothetical age of 140.

The mother of four has been asked to fo 300 hours of free work and the judge handed her a suspended jail sentence of 12 months.
 

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