26 Oct, 2020 @ 17:45
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Woman took €133,000 in pension money from dead aunt on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Pension Fraud Claims Dead Aunt

A WOMAN faces four years behind bars for stealing €133,000 in state pensions from a dead aunt’s bank account.

The unnamed Costa Blanca resident is accused of defrauding Spain’s Social Security authorities by not telling them that her relative passed away in 1997.

Prosecutors say that between 2012 and 2016, she helped herself to the accumulated pension pot through a series of ATM withdrawals.

Such stories are not uncommon in Spain.

A Galicia woman was convicted last year of claiming her deceased grandfather’s pension for 20 years, which reached over €100,000.

The National Statistics Institute said that 27,860 deceased pensioners were still being paid in 2015.

Authorities have four years to automatically claw back payments after somebody has died.

After that period, legal action can be taken to recover the money like in the cases involving the Costa Blanca and Galicia residents.

Alex Trelinski

Alex worked for 30 years for the BBC as a presenter, producer and manager. He covered a variety of areas specialising in sport, news and politics. After moving to the Costa Blanca over a decade ago, he edited a newspaper for 5 years and worked on local radio.

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