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New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Division of Pension and Benefits

NJ Police Officer’s Widow Kept Collecting Survivor Payout After Remarrying, Indictment Charges NJ Police Officer’s Widow Kept Collecting Survivor Payout After Remarrying, Indictment Charges
NJ Police Officer’s Widow Kept Collecting Survivor Payout After Remarrying, Indictment Charges The widow of a New Jersey police officer continued collecting more than $268,000 in pension benefits for nearly a decade after she remarried, state authorities charged. Sandra VonScheven, 44, of Hamilton began collecting spousal survivor benefits in 2001 from the pension of her deceased husband, who’d been a retired municipal police officer, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Surviving spouses are entitled to the benefit under the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System. Survivor benefits continue for life or until that person remarries. The state Division of Pensions and Benefi…