The irony of Frank is that the only thing he works hard at is not working. Whether it's feigning disability, stealing from his family, or coming up with a get-rich-quick scam, the Gallagher patriarch goes to extreme lengths to get cash without ever having a real job.
One of Frank's longest-running cons involved collecting the social security checks of Aunt Ginger, a deceased family member whose corpse he buried in the yard more than a decade before. The rest of the Gallaghers, along with Uncle Sam, believe that Ginger simply moved away. But when the federal government begins suspecting fraud, Frank has to scramble to find a new "Aunt Ginger" or risk imprisonment. He manipulates Fiona and her friend Veronica into helping, making them accomplices in the process.
They find an Alzheimer's patient at the nursing home where Veronica works, then kidnap the woman and parade her around as "Aunt Ginger." Frank uses the helpless elderly woman like a simple prop, lying to authorities and the rest of his family in the process. He even watches as his young daughter Debbie creates a bond with the woman she thinks is her relative, never informing her that this new maternal figure is actually a stranger.
