Convicted fraudster Joanne Harrison has added the Ministry of Social Development to the list of people she has ripped off.
She's admitted three charges of benefit fraud, worth $6500, which comes on top of more than $750,000 she stole from the Ministry of Transport, for which she is serving three-and-a-half years in prison.
"Ms Harrision misstated her income to the department, understating it, so that she could claim benefits that she was not otherwise entitled to;" says Judge Greg Davis. "In one instance, she falsified a pay slip from the Department of Corrections."
From October 2008 to April 2009, Harrison claimed she was earning $462 a week, when she was in fact earning four times that, $1842.
That's small change, compared to the $726,000 fraud she admitted earlier this year.
Police are currently trying get some of that back by attempting to seize her former Waimate north home.
It's worth more than $500,000 and is now in the name of her husband.
That offending caused the downfall of auditor-general Martin Mathews.
Mr Mathews as Ministry of Transport boss after whistle-blowers raised a red flag about Harrison's behaviour.
It's behaviour that seems entrenched, after it was revealed she had clocked up seven fraud convictions since 2005.
Now she has three more for the benefit fraud.
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