Another welfare fraud exposed!
A Pennsylvania woman received welfare payments for three imaginary kids. When it was all said and done, she made more in welfare over the course of multiple years than most Americans make annually.
In Pennsylvania, Sabrina Strothers collected $130,000 for three children that never existed. How does this sort of thing happen?
Can anyone just claim they have children and get money? Thankfully, Strothers, 23, has been caught and is now sitting in jail.
According to reports, Strothers said she gave birth to three kids (triplets) when she was 15 years old who she named Thomas, Tomalyia, and Tyreik Wilson. Would that not have been a little suspicious that a 15-year-old gave birth to triplets?
Strothers reported the birth of the three children to the country assistance office and continued to list them on applications for benefits for eight years. However, the children did not exist. Shockingly, Strothers got away with it for nearly a decade and was only busted when her own cousin reported her to Pittsburgh officials.
When investigators followed up on the cousin’s tip, they discovered that the Social Security numbers for Strothers’ children actually belonged to people born in 1887, 1945, and 1960.
When Strothers was initially contacted by the Office of the Inspector General, she claimed the triplets lived with their father in Atlanta, Georgia. She also claimed that she sent her benefits card to him so he could use the benefits to provide for their children. However, she was unable to provide officials with the father’s address or telephone number.
Strothers received $89,453 in medical assistance funds, $37,269 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, and $2,073 in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grants — totaling $128,795 of illegal benefits from Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services.
Strothers collected benefits for her imaginary children for 8 years.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Strothers is now facing one charge of theft by deception, and two counts of both forgeries and making false statements during a welfare investigation.
According to the Pennsylvania OIG, “If found guilty of committing welfare fraud, a defendant must make full restitution of the overpaid benefits, can receive a sentence that can include community service, probation, or incarceration, pay costs and fines to the court, and be disqualified for a period of time from public assistance benefits.”
You have to wonder how long her cousin knew about this, but at least Strothers can no longer live off taxpayer money and will now be held accountable for what she did.
Let’s hope an example is made out of this woman and she is hit hard with all of the above.
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