A benefit fraudster, who held down four different jobs while illegally claiming a raft of hand-out's during an £8,234 swindle, has been sentenced.
Mother-of-two Abiola Adebiyi, 32, of Inwell Estate, Neptune Street, South Bermondsey kept her employment a secret while making a series of claims.
She received housing benefit and council tax benefit from the London Borough of Southwark and income support from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
At Camberwell Magistrates' Court yesterday (pictured) she was placed on a twelve-month community order, which includes 100 hours community service work.
Adebiyi, who is heavily pregnant with her third child, worked for London Care plc; Anchor Housing Trust; Care UK Community Partnership and Dynamic Clearing.
She pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonestly making a false statement to obtain housing benefit; two counts of dishonestly making a false statement to obtain council tax benefit and two counts of making a false statement to obtain income support on or about October 15, 2008.
Adebiyi also admitted six counts of dishonestly failing to declare a change of circumstances in relation to the claims on or around December 12, 2008 and August 17, 2009, namely that she was in paid employment.
When the first-time offender was quizzed by investigators she claimed a former friend had worked using her name and her Nat West bank account without her knowledge.
She denied working while receiving benefits and claimed payments she received were from a £3,500 loan she had made to another friend.
Adebiyi, who legally receives child benefit and tax credits, is currently repaying the money from her current job.
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