A mum who fraudulently claimed over £42,000 in benefits while having an affair with her landlord avoided jail today.Jennifer Aitken , 39, falsely claimed the cash from South Lanarkshire Council between October 2012 and April 2018.
Aitken told the DWP that she originally needed support but it had “snowballed.” She broke the law by not telling the council on her application that she had two children with her landlord, Archie Durie.Aitken pleaded guilty in November at Glasgow Sheriff Court to embezzling housing benefit of £42,874.85.Aitken was ordered to do the maximum 300 hours unpaid work as an “alternative to custody” by Sheriff Andrew Cubie.She will also be under social work supervision for six months.Sheriff Cubie said: “This was a
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