A WIDOW who fraudulently claimed almost £30,000 in benefits has been ordered to pay it back, plus interest.
Sharon Few lost her first husband to cancer but carried on claiming about £100 a week in widowed parent’s benefit while living with and eventually marrying another man.
The 40-year-old was given a suspended jail sentence at Oxford Crown Court in March after admitting two counts of failing to notify the Department for Work and Pensions of a change in her circumstances.
The mum-of-two, of Finham Brook, Didcot, returned to court yesterday for a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing. She must pay £30,614.60 within six months or face 15 months in jail.
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