For more than five years, the longtime retired city of Cincinnati employee drew his monthly pension check, which zipped electronically into his bank account via direct deposit.Given that thousands of retirement benefit checks go out from City Hall monthly, there's nothing unusual about that - except for the fact the former employee was dead all that time.
That case is one of nearly three dozen in recent years in which dead city retirees or their beneficiaries received monthly pension checks for months, even years, after their deaths, according to city audit documents.
The payments continued - in fact, they became more numerous and costly - even after a February 2007 city audit faulted the Cincinnati Retirement System for "weak internal and management controls" that routinely allowed for, among other failings, pension checks to be mailed out to city retirees long after their deaths.
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