JOBLESS Paul Jackson falsely claimed more than £4,000 in benefits.
Middlesbrough Council solicitor Angela Gray told Teesside Magistrates that the false representation for housing benefit, job seekers' allowance and council tax relief represented a loss to the public purse.
Jackson, of Sutton Way, Middlesbrough, failed to declare that his partner, a hospital radiographer earning £1,672 a week, moved in with him in July last year.
He pleaded guilty to four charges of falsely obtaining benefit, at Teesside Magistrates' Court, yesterday.
The case was adjourned for three weeks for a pre-sentence report.
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