Former Social Security Employee Sentenced To 21 Months In Prison For Benefits Fraud

     From the Chicago Sun-Times:

A former Social Security Administration employee was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Monday for cashing her dead mother’s Social Security checks for almost 30 years.

Georgia Thompson, 68, of Chicago, received $419,644 in fraudulent Social Security benefits from the checks between 1986 and 2014, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office. ...

The Social Security Administration discovered the fraud in 2014 after realizing Thompson’s mother hadn’t used her Medicare benefits in several years, prosecutors said. ...