Nurse avoids jail for €10k children’s allowance fraud

A nurse in Dublin, who fraudulently claimed almost €10,000 in children’s allowance payments while her son and daughter were living in India, has been spared a jail sentence.

Nurse avoids jail for €10k children’s allowance fraud

Rajini Benesh, aged 38, from India but with an address at Abbeyview, Monkstown, Co Dublin, was fined €750 after she pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining €9,270 in children’s allowance payments.

Joseph Maguire, prosecuting, told Judge John Brennan at Dublin District Court that Benesh did not tell the social welfare authorities that her two children were living in India.

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