BACKGROUND reports have been ordered into a 62-year-old man at Selkirk Sheriff Court after he admitted receiving almost £30,000 in benefits he was not entitled to.
Richard Bridges of Maidenhall Farm Cottages, St Boswells, pleaded guilty to obtaining Income Related Employment and Support Allowance of £29,738.45 without declaring he was receiving payments from pension plans.
The offence happened over a five year period at a house near Earlston.
Bridges told the court he had paid back all the money.
Sheriff Peter Paterson said it was a serious matter and deferred sentence until September 23 for the production of a Criminal Justice Social Work Report and a Restriction of Liberty Order assessment.
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