Michael Godfrey (54) of Lawnbrook Avenue, Belfast was given a £400 fine and ordered to pay £36 court costs for failure to declare his partner’s earnings while claiming Income Support and Housing Benefit totalling £2,301.
Robert Adams (56) of Blythe Street, Belfast was given an 18 month probation order, has to attend a Think First programme and was ordered to pay £22 court costs for wrongful encashment of Income Support totalling £702.
Ronnie McCullough (24) of Templemore Street, Belfast was given a 12 month probation order, has to attend a Think First programme and was ordered to pay £31 court costs for duplicate encashment of Income Support totalling £441.
All are also required to repay the money they wrongfully obtained to the Social Security Agency.
This brings to 236 the total number of successful prosecutions this year.
