A jet-setting divorcee who flaunted her luxury holidays on Facebook while falsely claiming to be penniless has avoided jail.
Susan Pearson, 58, from Platt Bridge, Wigan, was dubbed 'Miss Holiday' by friends due to her endless exotic getaways, which included sun-soaked trips to Tunisia, Cyprus, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and Tenerife - plus a Mediterranean cruise.
The globetrotting fraudster, whose travels were so frequent friends joked she racked up 'more air miles than Air Force One', claimed she was broke and unemployed while secretly stashing more than £40,000 across two savings accounts.
In total, Pearson pocketed £40,334.21 in Universal Credit over five years and bagged a £536.22 discount on her council tax by lying on forms about her financial situation.
Welfare officials caught her after a data match revealed she held undeclared savings with Nationwide and a Co-Funds investment account with one lump sum withdrawal totalling £13,000.
