Woman sentenced to prison for collecting dead mother-in-law’s Social Security payments for 33 years

In the eyes of the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mrs. B. Taylor had collected her benefits every month for 33 years. Not too unusual — except for the fact Mrs. Taylor died in 1981. U.S. District Judge Arguello in Denver sentenced Mrs. Taylor’s surviving daughter-in-law, Camille Taylor, to six months in prison on Tuesday for fraudulently taking the payments — a grand total of $224,339. Camille Taylor, 69, never notified the government that her mother-in-law had died.
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