Child Support Enforcement Opportunity Center Benefits Administration Social Services

Benefit Recovery / Fraud Prevention

Benefit Recovery

The Benefit Recovery unit is responsible for the following functions:

  • The calculation and collection of public assistance payments issued in error.
  • Investigations and suspected fraud.

Please contact an investigator when you suspect someone is abusing the use of public assistance. Each investigator is responsible for overseeing complaints within their alphabet allotment. The alphabetical break down is as follows:

Rhonda Kennedy (A Thru L)
1.800.242.0029
740.454.0161 Ext 157

Jan Smith (M Thru Z)
1.800.242.0029
740.454.0161 Ext 258

Tammy Swingle
1.800.242.0029
740.454.0161 Ext. 156

Online fraud referral form


Fraud Prevention

Any of these investigators encourage the public to report any suspected abuse of public assistance which can include the following unreported situations:

  • Employment
  • Living Arrangments
  • Recipients of Social Security, Unemployment, Workers Comp
  • Insurance Settlements
  • Ownership of real estate, rental properties, vehicles, campers, boats, etc.
  • Absent parents living in the home
  • Children leaving home

When making a report please be as detailed as possible with names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates. You do not have to give your name when reporting. If you do give your name we will NOT reveal our source of information to the persons under investigation.  To report a possibly fraudulent recipient complete this fraud referral form and click submit.