Audit: 1,164 dead people received welfare benefits

http://bostonherald.com/ ^ | 05/28/2013 | Matt Stout

[massmike]

The Department of Transitional Assistance paid out more than $2 million in benefits to 1,164 people who were dead, according to a scathing new audit calling on the embattled agency to tighten up its fraud investigations.

The report, released this afternoon by state Auditor Suzanne Bump’s office, also showed where DTA failed to use technology that could have identified $15 million in questionable benefits and shelled out a $1 million more to those using fake Social Security numbers.

The audits follows a damning report released earlier this year by the Inspector General’s Office, which found $25 million in EBT money went to recipients who may not have been eligible.

[Jim from C-Town]

The Department of Transitional Assistance:

Well it has to be a real shocking transition.

[Lonely Bull]

Audit: 1,164 dead people received welfare benefits

But if the dead stop receiving welfare benefits, they may stop voting for Democrats.

[Safetgiver]

Government devises a program and crooks devise a way to rip it off. It is axiomatic. Government NEVER oversees anything. (See Medicare).

[massgopguy]

Leakage and Anecdotes!!!!

[Uncle Miltie]

That’s wrong by an order of magnitude. You can be sure there are >10,000 in MA.

[massgopguy]

The dead didn’t vote for the Democrats. The people that cashed the checks did.

[stanne]

Well, ok, as long as they aren’t subject to drug tests

[onyx]

Who cashed the checks?

[Paine in the Neck]

An honest mistake. They were all voters. Who would have thought? /s

[Blood of Tyrants]

How much more are we shelling out to illegal aliens? How much do illegal aliens cost our education system? How much in Medicaid? How many citizens have lost their lives to illegal alien drunk drivers? How many have been raped and murdered by illegal aliens?

[stanne]

Now that’s humor

[stanne]

Now that’s humor

[SeminoleCounty]

I thought “dead” was a barrier to get public assistance....guess I was wrong

[detective]

And each of these dead people votes the straight Democrat ticket in every election.

[Gay State Conservative]

1100 dead people is just the start.In addition to the entire Boston jihadi family many,many,*many* wetbacks get it here as do many people who don't exist and many who collect under several different names.

[Forrestfire]

What is a temporary social security number?

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Gay State Conservative]

I thought “dead” was a barrier to get public assistance....guess I was wrong

I'll wager that you've never been to The Gay State.

[posterchild]

Are we talking about merely dead or really most sincerely dead?