The city of Wilmington, Delaware, home to the Hagley museum and site of the DuPont Building, sent pension checks to a widow’s bank account for nearly two decades after her death. The oversight cost the city nearly $73,000. City Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter stated that the third-party vendor responsible for crosschecking records and stopping payments overlooked the widow because there was no Social Security information available. The deputy chief of staff for policy and communications, John Rago, said city officials were looking into overpayments and retracing their steps to find out what exactly happened. It is not yet clear if another party was benefitting from the overpayments.
See Pension Checks Totaling $73G Rolled in for Years After Woman’s Death, Fox News, September 2, 2017.
