A Pageland woman has admitted to stealing her niece’s Social Security benefits, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins.
U.S. District Judge Terry L. Wooten accepted the plea from 31-year-old Sarah Faye Price and will sentence her later. The maximum penalty Price can receive is a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison.
In November 2001, Price applied for and obtained Social Security benefits on behalf of her niece, for whom she was then responsible. Later, Price’s niece was placed in a foster home before being returned to her mother.
Price failed to tell the Social Security Administration she was no longer taking care of her niece, and continued to collect $20,003 in benefits to which she wasn’t entitled. Federal agents discovered the fraud and cut off the payments in December 2006.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William E. Day II of the Florence office is prosecuting the case.
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