A woman from Bettystown, Ireland, continued to collect her mother’s pension for almost three years after her death, claiming that she did “because she could keep her alive”. 56 -year -old Catherine Byrne said she was not using money for personal enrichment. On the contrary, she said she had them for the purchase of flowers for her mother’s grave. After her trial of the Court of Appeal, Byrne was sentenced to two -year imprisonment, after promising authorities to return the total amount. She is already paying 120 euros a week to the Ministry of Social Welfare, and she was also sentenced to 240 hours of social work. According to the Daily Mail, Byrne admitted that she did not declare her mother’s death in 2019 and continued to receive widow’s pension and career allowance for almost three years. Illegal payments continued until January 2022. “Death was not declared, which is unusual and she continued to facilitate […]
Source: News Beast

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