John Darwin and his wife Anne have been remanded in custody accused of four further counts of deception.
Mr Darwin, 57, who reappeared last month after being presumed dead, appeared at Hartlepool Magistrates' Court this morning with his 55-year-old wife Anne, charged with further offences of obtaining money by deception.
It was the first time the couple had appeared in court together since Mr Darwin apparently came back from the dead.
They both spoke only to confirm their names and ages during the brief hearing.
They are jointly accused of obtaining £25,186 (€33,635) from a teacher's pension scheme by deception and dishonestly obtaining £58,845 (€78,592) from a civil service pension and two separate amounts totalling £4,273 (€5,707) from the bereavement benefit scheme.
Mr Darwin faces a fifth charge of dishonestly obtaining £137,000 (€182,977) from Norwich Union Life Services which is a charge Mrs Darwin is already facing.
Both were remanded in custody until 18 January by magistrates.
The couple's solicitors did not apply for bail and said their clients would not be entering pleas at this stage of the proceedings.
Mr Darwin disappeared after taking his canoe into the sea opposite his home in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, in March 2002.
A huge air-sea search failed to find any trace of his body, and he was pronounced dead by police and a coroner the following year.
It has since been claimed that the former teacher and prison officer was living next door to his wife at her seaside home in Seaton Carew for much of the time he was thought to have been dead.
The mystery of his disappearance started to unravel when Mr Darwin walked into a London police station on 1 December last year and announced, 'I think I'm a missing person.'
Days later, a photograph of Mr Darwin and his wife, a former doctor's receptionist, emerged, which appeared to show them in Panama with a property agent.
The picture is said to have been taken in July 2006 more than three years after the coroner recorded an open verdict on Mr Darwin's death.
Last month, detectives said the couple's two sons, Mark and Anthony Darwin, were never made aware that their father was still alive and were innocent victims of the charade.
The Darwins spent Christmas in separate prisons after their last appearance before the court on 14 December.
