Published: Friday, 4th April, 2008 4:30pm

Woman's £3.5k benefit fraud

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A WOMAN who claimed £3,500 in benefits she wasn’t entitled to has been ordered to pay them back.

Alison McCafferty, 37, accepted housing and council tax benefit over a four-year period without disclosing income she received from a job with the NHS.

McCafferty, of Berwick Road, Greenock, was caught out in November last year.

Yesterday, she admitted the fraud at the sheriff court.

Her solicitor, Fiona Cook, admitted: “She is at the very early stage of repayment.”

Sheriff Vincent Canavan deferred sentence for six months to see how she progressed with the repayments.