A former Cornwall resident who swindled £42,000 in state benefits over five years has avoided jail. Kallum Amin – now living in Glasgow – admitted defrauding housing benefit and Personal Independence Payments (PIP) between 2014 and 2019. Truro Crown Court heard the 45-year-old, who owned properties and had savings, was not entitled to £12,594 in housing benefit. While living in Cornwall, he also received £29,189 from the Government in Personal Independence Payments and Employment Support allowance. He has now repaid nearly £4,000 and is settling the rest at the sum of £42 a week. The court hea…