Woman sentenced for stealing deceased mother’s retirement benefits

AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. (WACH) — A woman has been sentenced to one year and one month in federal prison for theft of government funds from the Social Security Administration.

Officials say Cynthia Delores Holland, 62, of Aiken, improperly obtained her mother’s retirement benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) after her mother died in 2013.

Those benefits continued to be mistakenly paid into a joint account held by Holland and her mother…

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