A benefit cheat from Greymouth has been sentenced to 400 hours of community service and ordered to repay more than $19,000 to ACC.
Nigel Ross Hipson, 38, received weekly payments for injury-related loss of earning, despite continuing to work.
Hipson had pleaded guilty to two representative charges of misusing a document under the Crimes Act, and four charges of wilful omission and failing to provide earnings information under the Accident Compensation Act.
The entitlement, for injury-related loss of earnings, was originally granted after Mr Hipson suffered a hernia in October 2000, and continued after he injured his arm in February 2001.
But between November 2006 and July 2007, he was in continuous employment as a labourer with a construction company. He worked intermittently for the same company in 2007 and early in 2008.
