Ex wife kept my stimulus money –Terry Says: Here are Federal Penalties for Benefits Fraud
I hope all is well , my question is related to a former question that you answered,
Since 2020 I have been divorced from my wife. I allowed her to keep my part of stimulus checks during 2020. The third stimulus check went to her as well bc she added a new checking account. She agreed that the 1400$ portion of my stimulus she would transfer to me and now she has held it since March. I have been patient but I am over being the nice one now. I have asked her numerous times and now she will not even respond. I trusted her to be honest and to give me my portion. We have no children together and moved off to Dallas to live with her boyfriend.. what can I do to report her ? Thank you in advance David
Terry Says
You are not alone! I have received many, many emails on this topic. I have contacted the IRS several times, and am waiting for a statement of how they will go after this THEFT OF FEDERAL BENEFITS. It is a Federal crime, you know!!
The points below are taken from a recent Federal bulletin:
• The majority of government benefits fraud offenders were sentenced to
imprisonment (62.5%).
• The average sentence length for government benefits fraud offenders was 13
months.
So you might want to show this to your ex– because this is an easy case for the government to make!
