Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who “passed” as black for years while heading up a Washington state chapter of the NAACP, is facing charges of welfare fraud, according to The New York Times and other outlets.

Dolezal helped introduce the word “transracial” into the public lexicon when she was “outed” as a white woman in 2015.

Today, she’s in trouble for posing as “transpoor,” as Frontpage Mag humorously called her, after passing herself off as a struggling mom who needed food stamp assistance.

Dolezal, who changed her legal name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, received public assistance while at the same time cashing lucrative checks based on a book deal and the Netflix documentary “The Rachel Divide,” according to multiple reports.

She collected thousands in public welfare and was nailed when an investigator learned of her book deal, which can net an author $10,000 or more, as Spokane, Washington, NBC affiliate KHQ reported.

“According to court documents, Diallo illegally received $8,747 in food assistance, and illegally received $100 in child care assistance. Total restitution, according to the documents, is $8,847, allegedly stolen from August 2015 through November 2017,” KHQ reported.

An investigation into the funds uncovered the disparity in her income reports. At one point she was asked how she was managing on $500 in child support payments, and she replied, “Barely! With help from friends and gifts.”

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Court documents obtained by KHQ show that Diallo deposited about $83,924 into her bank account in monthly installments during the period she was on welfare, and she did not report the income to the Department of Social and Health Services. She received income from her book “In Full Color,” along with money from “speaking engagements, soap making, doll making, and the sale of her art.”

The state of Washington’s list of charges against Diallo includes first-degree theft by welfare fraud, perjury in the second degree, and false verification for public assistance.

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The transracial activist is facing more than a “slap on the wrist” for her welfare scam.

If convicted, she could receive as much as 15 years in prison, according to multiple sources.

Kyle Becker is a content writer and producer with LifeZette. Follow him on Twitter

(photo credit, homepage image: Rachel Dolezal Speaking at a Rally in Spokane, CC BY-SA 4.0, by Aaron Robert Kathman)