12 August 2004

BELFAST MAN CONVICTED OF FRAUD

A Belfast man, Robert Ingram, was convicted recently for wrongly claiming benefits from the Social Security Agency.

The 59-year-old man, from Ballysillan Park, Belfast, was fraudulently in receipt of benefit because he did not declare savings. The overpayments amounted to more than £5,000 over a period of a year.

Magistrate Nixon ordered that, in addition to paying back to the Social Security Agency the £5,294 he had falsely claimed, Mr Ingram pay court costs and a fine of £250.

This is the latest of a series of prosecutions brought by the Agency in its drive to clamp down on benefit fraud.

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