A Vallejo woman has agreed to resolve allegations she violated the False Claims Act to receive food stamps and financial help under a mortgage assistance program, a U.S. Attorney in Sacramento said.
Dorothy Natividad paid $116,900 in damages and civil penalties to resolve allegations that she knowingly made false statements to obtain benefits from both the Food Stamp/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and the “Keep Your Home California” Unemployment Mortgage Assistance Program, Phillip A. Talbert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, announced Tuesday in Sacramento.
The mortgage assistance program was a federally funded program to help California homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages due to financial hardships, Talbert added in a press statement.
“Keep Your Home California” was funded by the Hardest Hit Fund, established in 2010 to provide aid to families in states hit hard by the economic and housing market downturn caused by the financial crisis more than a decade ago.
The civil settlement resolves allegations that, between April 2014 and August 2016, Natividad concealed more than $100,000 of household income that would have disqualified her from receiving aid through this mortgage assistance program. The United States similarly alleged that she hid income that would have disqualified her from participation in SNAP, noted Talbert.
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