Mohamed Abrini became known as the "man in the hat" after the Brussels bombings
Nearly £5,500 in benefits were overpaid to a bank account alleged to have funded terrorism, a court has heard.
Prosecutors told Kingston Crown Court that £3,000 had been withdrawn from the account and given as cash to Mohamed Abrini - a suspect in the Paris and Brussels terror attacks - in July 2015.
Zakaria Boufassil, 26, who is accused of handing over the cash, denies preparing for acts of terrorism.
A second man, Mohammed Ali Ahmed, has pleaded guilty to the same charge.
The jury heard the £3,000 had been withdrawn from a bank account held by a fourth man, Anouar Haddouchi, who is not on trial.
Mr Haddouchi, an associate of Ahmed's, had lived in Birmingham before he travelled to Syria to fight for IS before July 2015, the court was told.
Mr Haddouchi had claimed housing and council tax benefit from Birmingham City Council from September 2009, jurors heard on Friday.
Although the council tax benefit was later cancelled, information about Mr Haddouchi's tenancy being terminated was not passed on to the service that administered the housing benefit, and, between December 2014 and November 2015, a total of £5,413 was overpaid into the account.
'£300 instalments'
Prosecuting, Karen Robinson told the court that someone claiming to be Mr Haddouchi had called Lloyd's Bank in May 2015 to report a lost debit card. She said the call had been made by Ahmed.
When the bank sent a new card to a Birmingham address, Ahmed had made contact with the new occupant of the address and collected the card, the court heard.
Jurors were shown a table of 17 withdrawals made between 30 May and 30 June 2015, including numerous £300 instalments, and were told each had been made by Ahmed.
The court also heard that telecommunications analysis suggested mobile phones attributed to Abrini, Ahmed and Mr Boufassil had been situated around the Small Heath Park area in Birmingham on the evening of July 10.
Abrini became known as "the man in the hat" following his suspected involvement in the Brussels terror attack in March this year, which killed 32 people at an airport and metro station, the jury heard earlier.
Abrini, currently in custody, but not on trial in this case, was an associate of two men believed to be responsible for the Paris attacks - Salah Abdeslam and Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
The trial continues.
