Magistrate Rodney Brender was lenient to Kylie Maree Keillor because she had to look after her young children.

Instead, she was sentenced this week to eight months' home detention, part of a 12-month intensive corrections order.

Keillor, 42, of Swan Street, fronted court over three separate sets of matters.

The most recent was the Medicare fraud, to which she pleaded guilty to obtaining a financial advantage from a Commonwealth entity, in which she made a claim over a fake $4500 anaethetist bill.

In December, 2017, Keillor uploaded an image of a falsified invoice from Deakin West specialist Dr Danny-Glen Raiz that resulted in a Medicare payout for $3216.10.

She received the order over this matter.

Keillor also pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to comply with the conditions of discharge or release, which related to a 12-month suspended jail term imposed in April, 2017.

The sentence, which included a $1000 good behaviour bond, related to Keillor reaping $32,310.98 in single parent benefits to which she was not entitled.

That was because she was working full-time between August 2, 2010, and September 26, 2012, earning a gross income of $117,811.70.

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Keillor, who blamed her offending on "a large amount of stress" and her "inability to function", received $34,432.21 in Centrelink payments.

The bond was breached because of her fraudulent Medicare claim.

None of the money owed has been repaid, the court was told.

Keillor was also found in breach of a good behaviour bond imposed in mid-2017 over the fraudulent use of a credit card after a wallet went missing from a Lavington home in late 2016.

She had pleaded guilty to five charges after she used the card to make purchases ranging from $39.95 to $95.25.

For the breach, Mr Brender imposed a community corrections order.

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