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New York worker charged with workers’ comp identity theft, fraud

Here is a free tip: if you are collecting workers’ comp benefits in New York, going out and getting yourself a new job using somebody else’s identity is not a great idea.  It’s actually illegal on many levels, as one New York woman recently found out first hand.

A woman from Kingstown was caught working at a fast food restaurant while she was collecting workers’ compensation benefits.  She was collecting benefits for a back injury, sustained at her primary job as a housekeeper at a senior citizen’s residence in August 2007.

The woman, Erika Bravo, 35, allegedly took $34,900 worth of workers’ comp benefits over about a two year period, all while working the second job.  Not only that, but Bravo used the identity of a distant relative as well as a false address and Social Security number.

She was caught when her former employer saw her working at the fast food restaurant.  The employer contacted fraud investigators who uncovered how Bravo had gotten the job under a false name, address and SSN.

In addition to charges of insurance fraud, identity theft, and workers’ compensation fraud Bravo will also face charges of perjury as she testified at a workers’ comp hearing in 2008 that she was not working.  At the time of her testimony she was, in fact, working at the fast food restaurant.

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