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A mother-of-two who made £20,000 worth of bogus child tax credit claims was caught after posting photographs on Facebook of her family holidays.
Joanna Pawlicka claimed she was a single mother as she spent more than five years claiming benefits she was not entitled to, a court heard.
An investigation was launched after the benefits agency was given a tip-off that Pawlicka was living with her husband Dawid Borucki and he was working full-time.
When they were quizzed, Mr Borucki claimed they were no longer living as a married couple and that he was mainly living in his van throughout the claim period.
He said he would sometimes return to the house to give his wife his dirty washing and did not consider their period together in London to be family holidays.
Pawlicka, who admitted falsely claiming a reduced figure of £20,000 after initially being charged in relation to more than £52,000, had sentence deferred for reports today at Dundee Sheriff Court.
Pawlicka, 35,, Leith Walk, Dundee, admitted being knowingly concerned in fraudulently obtaining Child Tax Credits between 6 April 2013 and 8 August 2018 at the city’s Fintry Road. She claimed to be living as a single mother when she was living with her husband.
Fiscal depute Marie Lyons told the court: “The accused claimed child tax credits after she reported separating from her partner in 2011….
