A Butler County man is accused of illegally receiving more than $3,000 in federal food stamps in 2011.

The Pennsylvania Inspector General’s office last week charged Khurram Syed Ali, 35, of Cranberry Township with a felony count of fraudulently obtaining Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Ali, authorities said, failed to disclose his wife was working between Feb. 1 and Aug. 31, 2011, when he collected $3,233 in SNAP benefits.

In applying for food stamps at the Department of Public Welfare’s county assistance office in Butler, Ali withheld that his wife was earning income “knowing this would have negatively affected his eligibility for public assistance benefits,” authorities said.

The violation of the Public Welfare Code statute is a third-degree felony.

A preliminary hearing at the office of District Judge Pete Shaffer in Butler was not immediately scheduled.

County Court records show that Ali in 2007 pleaded guilty to a summary count of failing to file earned income tax. He was ordered to pay $557.60 in restitution and court fees.