Two women from Daventry have been charged with fraudulently clamining thousands of pounds in benefits.
Charlotte Seaney, aged 26, of Ericsson Close, appeared in Northampton Magistrates’ Court on December 3 and pleaded guilty to fraudulently claiming £6,109 in Employment Support Allowance and Housing and Council Tax Benefit from February 2011 to October 2011.
The court heard she failed to declare that she was living with her husband, James Stoddard, at the time and she was sentenced to a six-month community order and had an eight-week curfew for between the hours of 8pm and 6am.
She was also ordered to pay court costs of £100 and all the money she wrongly claimed.
Dawn Cole, aged 56, of William Terrace, appeared in Northampton Magistrates’ Court on December 4, pleaded guilty to claiming £7,608 in income support, council tax benefit and housing benefit between June 2007 and January 2012.
The court heard Cole failed to declare that she had money in a bank account over the prescribed limits when she she made the claims, and she was sentenced to a 13-week suspended prison sentence and an 18-month community supervision order.
Magistrates at the hearing earlier this month also ordered her to pay £85 in costs and all the money she fraudulently claimed.
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