CLARION — A woman living in the United States illegally was sentenced to two months in federal prison on Friday after admitting she failed to report her husband’s income when applying for and receiving welfare benefits, according to the United States Department of Justice.

Cleotilde Puac-Gomez, 46, of Guatemala, was sentenced after a Feb. 6 guilty plea to one count of theft of U.S. government funds.

Puac-Gomez has been living in Clarion, according to the report from the Justice Department.

In a plea agreement, Puac-Gomez admitted she failed to report her husband’s income when she applied for and received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid benefits.

She received those benefits between June 2012 and November 2017.

According to officials, during that time period, Puac-Gomez’s husband, Melvin Rodriguez-Barrios, was working under an alias and used someone else’s Social Security number to be able to work.

Rodriguez-Barrios is also an illegal alien, according to the report.

Puac-Gomez received $19,908.30 in overpayment of food stamps and other welfare benefits funds, prosecutors said.

Those funds belong to the United States and were distributed by the state of Iowa.

Rodriguez-Barrios, 44, was sentenced March 27 to six months in prison following a Jan. 2 bench trial, which found him guilty of three counts of unlawful use of an identification document and four counts of misuse of a Social Security number.

Puac-Gomez was sentenced by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams.

In addition to her two-month sentence, Puac-Gomez was ordered to pay $19,908.30 in restitution to the state of Iowa.

She must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.

There is no parole in the federal system.

Puac-Gomez is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until she can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel C. Tvedt. It was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations; the United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General; and the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals Investigation Division — Economic Fraud Control Bureau.