Concord, NH – Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald and Department of Employment Security Commissioner George Copadis announce that Allison Roy, of or formerly of Milton Mills, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on December 3, 2020, in Strafford County Superior Court, on one count of unemployment compensation fraud, a class A felony.

Between September 9, 2017 and March 17, 2018, Ms. Roy knowingly failed to disclose her employment and earnings to the Department of Employment Security in order to obtain or increase her unemployment compensation benefits, in that on 26 occasions she submitted a weekly continued claim form and answered "No" to the question: "Did you work or perform any services, including self-employment last week? Regardless of whether or not you have been paid for the work or services." As a result, Ms. Roy fraudulently received $6,820.00 in unemployment benefits.

Ms. Roy was sentenced to 12 months in the House of Corrections, all deferred for a period of 12 months, then suspended for 2 years, conditioned on good behavior, the payment of restitution and penalty totaling $12,810.00, and the use of her likeness in the Department of Employment Security Benefits and Rights Interview, which discusses the ramifications of committing unemployment fraud. She is disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation benefits for 52 weeks.

The Department of Employment Security provides unemployment compensation benefits to eligible claimants who are unemployed through no fault of their own. The Department investigates and prosecutes both criminal and civil unemployment compensation fraud with the goal of protecting New Hampshire's unemployment compensation trust fund.