CRIME OF THE PASSED

Dead-mom $cam

A shameless daughter pocketed her dead mother’s monthly Social Security checks for almost 30 years, The Post has learned.

When federal agents knocked on Chiquita McCullough’s door in September 2014 to investigate the $291,313 fraud, she acted as if her mom, Rose, was simply out.

“I asked for [her] mother by name, and McCullough initially stated that her mother was not there,” Social Security Administration special agent Lori Kleinman said in Manhattan federal court papers.

“I then asked where [her] mother was, and McCullough stated that her mother died in June. I then asked what year [her] mother died, and McCullough stated that she believed it was 1990.”

McCullough (inset), 66, finally admitted that she had closed her mom’s bank account in 1986 and had the Social Security payments automatically deposited into her own account, court papers state.

She tried to play dumb with the SSA special agents who came to The Bronx home she once shared with Rose.

“She believed the benefits were a type of survivor benefit intended for McCullough after her mother died,” the criminal complaint states.

McCullough pleaded guilty Wednesday in a slaponthewrist deal set to give her no more than two years behind bars.

“Due to circumstances, financial circumstances, I did use the money. And I knew it was wrong,” McCullough said at her sentencing. She is required to pay back all the money she got from the scheme.

Prosecutors are also seeking the forfeiture of any other property she has to make up for what she stole, court papers state.

Federal investigators discovered McCullough’s scheme with a new system that flags for further investigation people who receive Social Security benefits but who haven’t used Medicare in three years, a lawenforcement source said.

Her lawyer didn’t return a call seeking comment. McCullough declined to comment outside her home, saying only, “No, I have nothing to say to you.”