A US military veteran, Christopher Stultz, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraudulently claiming over $660,000 in disability benefits by faking a walking impairment for more than two decades. Stultz, a resident of Antrim, New Hampshire, admitted to making false statements to obtain veteran’s disability benefits by pretending to be unable to walk and using a wheelchair for mobility.
Stultz, who served in the US Navy and was honorably discharged in 1999 after a spinal cord injury, began receiving disability benefits in 2003. Despite being rated as partially disabled by the US Department of Veterans Affairs initially, Stultz later claimed complete disability, leading to an increase in his benefits and additional funding for adapted vehicles.
