A woman who cheated the taxpayer out of more than £19,000 in benefits has been told she has 117 years to pay the money back.
Alison Ollis, 44, from Saltford, Somerset, claimed the cash in income support over three-and-a-half years, but failed to notify the authorities that she was also working at the time.
The single mother-of-three was given a 39-week suspended prison sentence at Bristol Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to two charges of delaying or obstructing a social security inspector in the exercise of his powers.
But because Ollis is still living on benefits she has been ordered to pay back the huge debt at a rate of just £3.20 a week.
If her circumstances remain the same, Ollis would, in theory, finally have coughed up the full amount when she was 161.
The judge admitted he normally would have sent her to prison, but said he had to consider her children's needs.
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