During my years in high school in Northern CA in the late 1950s, our county had ( and probably still does) have a serious welfare fraud problem in our “black precincts.” They tried to conduct “unannounced visits” to black welfare recipient females to try and determine just how many children each of them actually had, because they were “sharing” their kids to boost child welfare payments. When they started getting caught by reason of the “unannounced visits” they went to court and a court found that it was “reasonable” for the county to make appointments to visit. Hopefully, now with the cameras we have, they are at least taking pictures of the children to try and stem this abuse of the system.
“because they were “sharing” their kids to boost child welfare payments. When they started getting caught by reason of the “unannounced visits”
I’d say fingerprint all the kids..Then run the prints thru STATE computers..
Start with Maryland and the 2 Carolinas, and D.C. of course.... Betcha the first “run” would save millions !