An Alabama woman has pleaded guilty to cashing her deceased mother's Ohio workers' compensation checks for more than a year, the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation reported.
Patricia Barney was sentenced to five years of probation and must pay the bureau $18,000 in restitution, according to a news release.
BWC’s Special Investigations Department found that Barney, who was an authorized user on the bank account where her mother's benefit payments were being directly deposited, continued to draw from the account after her mother died in January 2017. She did so until May 2018 without notifying BWC, the agency said.
The bureau also announced another conviction for double dipping, and three others for employers failing to secure comp coverage:
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