article_snippet.sent: Mary Day (pictured outside court) fraudulently claimed £16,500 of income support and disability allowance and used money to go on holidays .
article_snippet.sent: Mary Day (pictured outside court) fraudulently claimed £16,500 of income support and disability allowance despite having £27,000 of £ own savings in the bank.
article_snippet.sent: Day has now pleaded guilty to five counts of dishonestly failing to notify the Department for Work and Pensions of a change in circumstances affecting £ ability to claim benefits.
article_snippet.sent: Day was also ordered to pay £85 towards prosecution costs and a victim surcharge of £80.
article_snippet.sent: Day (pictured left with a friend) claimed £16,500 of income support and disability allowance despite having £27,000 in savings .
highlights_snippet.sent: Mary Day, 60, claimed over £16,500 in benefits despite not being eligible .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Day used taxpayers' money to go on luxury holidays to Indian resort of Goa .
  Pleaded guilty to dishonestly claiming benefits and has paid back money .