Wigan man pleads guilty to benefit fiddling
A Wigan man kept more than £4,500 in benefits which he had been wrongly paid.
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Martin Hughes, 40, of Church Street in Standish, appeared before Wigan justices to admit three charges of dishonestly failing to take steps to cancel three credit payments of £1,525.44 in 2019. He was ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.
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