Post by Banjo on Jun 9, 2011 19:18:43 GMT 7
Mum pocketed $75k
A MARRIED Whittington woman, who ripped-off the Commonweath to the tune of $75,000 in unentitled benefits by claiming she was single, will be sentenced tomorrow.
Yana Mifsud, 30, of Wilsons Rd, pleaded guilty in Geelong County Court yesterday to two counts of defrauding the Commonwealth.
Crown prosecutor Matthew Phillips said over a five-year period between 2003 and 2008 Mifsud repeatedly claimed higher, and unentitled, benefits by stating she was single.
He said the claims involved Newstart payments and, following the birth of her first child and subsequent children, parenting and family tax payments.
Judge McInerney said it was a farce that a Commonwealth body such as Centrelink, which had within its resources the ability to detect that Mifsud was married, had failed to do so and it had been left to a member of the public to break the news.
www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/06/09/262581_news.html
A MARRIED Whittington woman, who ripped-off the Commonweath to the tune of $75,000 in unentitled benefits by claiming she was single, will be sentenced tomorrow.
Yana Mifsud, 30, of Wilsons Rd, pleaded guilty in Geelong County Court yesterday to two counts of defrauding the Commonwealth.
Crown prosecutor Matthew Phillips said over a five-year period between 2003 and 2008 Mifsud repeatedly claimed higher, and unentitled, benefits by stating she was single.
He said the claims involved Newstart payments and, following the birth of her first child and subsequent children, parenting and family tax payments.
Judge McInerney said it was a farce that a Commonwealth body such as Centrelink, which had within its resources the ability to detect that Mifsud was married, had failed to do so and it had been left to a member of the public to break the news.
www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/06/09/262581_news.html
