A GRANDMOTHER jailed for falsely claiming more than £42,000 in benefits has lost her council home.
Theresa Aldous, 64, will have her house repossessed by Croydon Council after she was sent back to prison for nine months on January 14 this year.
A district judge at a Croydon Crown Court hearing last Wednesday (January 22) also ordered she pay back £8,763.65 in rent arrears.
Aldous, of Godstone Road, Kenley, was sentenced to six months jail in April 2012 after she lied to authorities to claim widow's benefit, despite remarrying.
She told further lies to claim housing benefit on a council house in which she no longer lived.
Aldous also failed to notify the council she had moved out of her house and was letting her daughter live there as a sub-tenant.
When her husband died, she failed to disclose the £19,000 inheritance in her benefits application.
Investigators discovered she had given the inheritance to her family, despite being told she owed the falsely claimed benefits back to the council and the Department for Work and Pensions.
In September 2012, a judge issued a confiscation order following an investigation into her finances under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
She was sent back to prison a fortnight ago for failing to pay back this money.
