Mum pocketed £75,000 in benefits overpayments after claiming partner was homeless from breakup

Kelly Clews claimed she was homeless after a breakup (Picture: Facebook)

A benefits cheat mum who pocketed more than £75,000 in overpayments said her partner had moved out and was homeless after they broke up.

Kelly Clews was actually still living with her boyfriend and enjoying trips to Pontins with him.

Clews, 41, insisted she and Matthew Corbett, who had a job, were ‘not a full-on relationship’ and said they ‘just shared kids’.

Manchester Crown Court heard there were times they were ‘estranged’, but they were living together when she fraudulently claimed multiple benefits.

Between 2018 and 2023, Clews claimed

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