Fraudster failed to say she was living with partner
BENEFIT cheat Samantha Evans dishonestly claimed more than £40,000.
Twenty-five-year-old Evans, of Bishop Road, Tunstall, admitted two charges of dishonestly failing to give prompt notification of a change in her circumstances.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday heard she had not told the authorities that she was living with her partner between 2005 and 2008.
She claimed £24,155 of income support she was not entitled to and £16,240 in council tax and housing benefit.
Evans will be sentenced for the two offences, totalling £40,396 on September 10.
Her bail was extended but Judge Robert Trevor-Jones told her not to take that as an indication of the sentence.
"These are serious offences. All options remain open," he said.
4 Comments
by Warren, Meir
Monday, August 23 2010, 6:36PM
“Make her pay every last cent back, no more pay out, ever, and when she as worked for about fifty years, give her a pension and a bus pass. Thieving pig, people who need the help don't get it becouse of people spongers like this.”
by thelesbo, stoke
Monday, August 23 2010, 3:30PM
“it mite learn her a lesson takin from our hard earned muney she shud b disgusted ov herself i hope thy big butch dykes in prison teach her a lesson”
by The Judge, stoke on trent
Monday, August 23 2010, 3:14PM
“i think she should go prison to make an example of her as a warning to others not to steal tax payers money”
by who cares?, Stoke on Trent
Monday, August 23 2010, 12:48PM
“Should be made to work everyday of her life and pay every penny back, the thieving little madam.”