A man who claimed €45,000 in jobseeker’s allowance by using two different identities over several years, while working under a third identity, avoided a jail term yesterday by repaying the full amount of fraudulent claims. Previously, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Ó Donnabháin said it would have taken an extremely long time to pay back what was taken. He came to Ireland in 2007 and signed on for jobseeker’s allowance in one name and then in another. Gda Lynch said facial image matching software identified Da Costa as the same person claiming jobseeker’s allowance under two names. He admitted sample counts related to stealing jobseeker’s allowance.

Source: Irish Examiner February 08, 2019 21:22 UTC