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Hearing officer recommends dismissal of employee who submitting a false affidavit claiming she was unemployed

Hearing officer recommends dismissal of employee who submitting a false affidavit claiming she was unemployed
NYC Human Resources Administration v Johnson, OATH Index #1187/10

OATH Administrative Law Judge Kevin Casey recommended that the Human Resources Administration terminate Alyce Johnson, an eligibility specialist employed by New York City, after finding that Johnson had falsified affidavits submitted to the New York City Housing Authority stating that she was unemployed and thereby defrauded the city of over $22,000 in housing benefits.

Johnson had worked for more than 20 years as an eligibility specialist. She routinely
determined whether applicants were entitled to food stamps and other public benefits.

Human Resources alleged that Johnson, who had been living in has been living in public housing since 1990, had paid substantially lowered rent from 2001 to 2006, as a result of her submitting false affidavits to the Housing Authority.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).