article_snippet.sent: Steph Cordon, Cheshire East Council's head of communities, said: 'It is a big mistake for fraudsters to think fraudsters can get away with claiming benefits fraudsters are not entitled to. '
article_snippet.sent: fraudsters risk ending up with a criminal conviction for a serious offence of dishonesty and being ordered to repay the money fraudsters have falsely claimed. '
article_snippet.sent: We have a zero-tolerance policy towards benefit fraud because We are determined to ensure that the benefits system works for people who really need help.'
article_snippet.sent: Wilkinson of  Knutsford, applied for housing benefit and Council Tax benefit in April 2011, saying that she was on a low income, was living in a privately-rented property and needed assistance with she rent and council tax, a court heard, .
article_snippet.sent: she also made a claim for income support to help she
article_snippet.sent: and she daughter as she had no other income.
article_snippet.sent: However, investigators from Cheshire East Council's benefit fraud investigation team and the Department for Work and Pensions found she had failed to declare that she mother owned the property for which she was claiming housing benefit.
article_snippet.sent: Over a two-year period, she received a total of £17,604 in state benefits that she was not entitled to.
article_snippet.sent: she will have to repay in full the benefits that she fraudulently obtained.
highlights_snippet.sent: Amy Wilkinson, 28, falsely claimed housing benefit and Council Tax benefit .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Court gives her suspended sentence and orders her to pay back £18,000 .
  