City sues widow after $140,000 death-benefit mistake
City accounting staff in Tampa under fire for incorrect death benefit payment.
In all, the city has demanded Emma Winters repay $140,509.68, the cost of the four overpayments plus interest.
At her small Tampa Heights home on Wednesday, Winters said she was confused and grieving in the months after her husband's death and thought the checks were rightfully hers.
"During that time," she said, "I was out of it."
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