Thread: Crackdowns target welfare cheats

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

San Diego County, Calif., investigators visit the homes of public aid applicants to verify occupancy of an eligible child, check assets and make sure an "absent" parent doesn't live in the home. The practice has been upheld in court.

Isn't this how it was done in the 70's?

Yeah...before political correctness ruled the day. Lets hope the implement similar measures here in Orange/LA County.

It needs to be a federal law (if it still isn't on the books) for each State to do it before they receive any of those welfare funds....If they don't do these welfare checks they won't get the funds and should be on the hook for it themselves....

You would think the States would want to do this..As of now most of them are told they need to provide these services but get very little reimbursement if any at all or the paper work is so crazy that no one qualify's for the money, this needs to stop. This is a big reason so many States are in such dire straits and heading towards insolvency....They are footing the bill because the Federal Government dictates to them but doesn't pay its way for its dictates...or tries not to.

There is so much corruption in this welfare system that it is disgusting....the corruption is rampart in all departments in both levels State and Federal and in a lot more than just the welfare section..gaming the system needs to stop in all areas.



Kathyet

From L.A. County 2009

Accused Welfare Cheats Targeted in Joint Agency Arrest Sweep


June 4, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila-Morales, Assistant PIO
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – District Attorney’s investigators along with agents from state and federal agencies fanned out throughout Los Angeles County today with arrest warrants for nearly two dozen people accused of bilking taxpayers out of more than $2.3 million in phony public assistance benefits.

“Again we see the truly needy deprived of benefits by the truly greedy,â€

From Orange County

Grand jury: Welfare fraud cuts cost taxpayers $9.6 million

May 21st, 2010, 11:45 am
by Jennifer Muir

The county Social Services Agency last year slashed the number of investigators who identify fraud in the state CalWORKS welfare program for a savings of $900,000.

But those savings come at a huge price: Some $9.6 million in fraudulent payments went undetected in the last six months of 2009. That’s according to a Grand Jury report released Friday into the county’s welfare fraud detection process.

The state pays the county to administer CalWORKS, which provides Orange County’s poorest residents with cash and services for food, housing and other necessities. That means the $9.6 million in savings wouldn’t be directly realized by county government.

Still, at a press conference this morning, grand jurors said cutting fraud investigators by 34 percent was “a bad business decisionâ€