A woman has been jailed for two years after leaving her father's body in a morgue for 18 months while claiming more than $75,000 in his pension and carer payments.
Kim Marie Ramsay, 49, pleaded guilty to multiple charges in Western Australia's District Court last week, after admitting she had failed to advise Centrelink that her father, Edward, who had dementia, had died in June 2017.
Ramsay claimed more than $40,000 in carers payments and $35,000 of his aged care pension for almost two years, using the funds to pay for dental work, motor vehicle bills, and the vet care of her 45 rescue animals.
The court heard her actions were uncovered by authorities in January 2019 after the WA's Coroner's Court alerted the Public Trustee to an 'unclaimed body' at the morgue, The West Australian reported.
