A woman was convicted at Craigavon Magistrates’ Court today for wrongfully obtaining Income Support and Housing Benefit.
Between December 2002 and February 2004 Margaret Liggett (46) of The Beeches, Portadown, had failed to disclose her partner's earnings while claiming £6,266 in benefits. She was sentenced to 200 hours community service and will also have to repay the money she received to the Social Security Agency.
This brings to 325 the number of convictions secured so far this year by the Social Security Agency in its campaign against benefit fraud.
