Irish Woman Kept Drawing Dead Mother's Pension For 3 Years, Says It Was "To Keep Her Alive"

Irish Woman Kept Drawing Dead Mother's Pension For 3 Years, Says It Was "To Keep Her Alive"

The case was eventually brought before the Dundalk Circuit Court, where Catherine admitted to withdrawing the money.

Woman who claimed dead mum's pension said it was 'a way of keeping mother alive'

Catherine Byrne, 56, who failed to register her mum’s death at the time, claimed she didn’t spend the money on a lavish lifestyle but spent the money on flowers for her mother’s grave, Dundalk Circuit Court heard

The Irish woman continued to draw dead mother's pension for 3 years, says it was "her alive"

In a case that debate in Ireland, a woman continued to collect the pension of her dead mother for three years and claimed that it was a way to keep her memory alive. The incident came to light in County Meath, where the authorities recently discovered that pension payments were intended for an older woman