Posted on 05/26/2017 10:44:10 AM PDT by spintreebob
Improvements to the program could be made. But it seems to be working quite well.
Give the Left a choice between Welfare in a Stagnant economy or Work in a growing economy.
We take the votes of voters who believe in work. Let the Left take what's left.
So 62% of childless, able bodied recipients were not working?
129 bucks? A month? Why would anyone bother?
What happens when states go hunting for Medicaid fraud
Within about a year, Illinois had canceled benefits for nearly 150,000 people whose eligibility could not be verified and saved an estimated $70 million.
overpayments and underpayments in all assistance programs cost federal and state governments about $136.7 billion in 2015, out of about $2.8 trillion spent in assistance overall.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/happens-states-go-hunting-medicaid-fraud/
It's not 62% of the 1.6 million on food stamps, but, rather 62% of 11,779.
Notice the number of people who made no attempt to keep their Foodstamps.
Fraud.
In other news, public health officials report a 62% reduction in obesity among the poor.
If you’re buying real food, like eggs, chicken, vegetables, etc., $129 buys a lot. If you’re buying soda, sugary cold cereals, cake - garbage “food”, $129 doesn’t buy much.
Emails And Robocalls Promoting Medicaid Enrollment
Postcards, robocalls and other low-tech outreach tools can be as effective as personalized enrollment assistance at encouraging eligible people to sign up for Medicaid, a new study found
Enrollment was significantly higher 41 percent among those who received extra outreach efforts.
http://khn.org/news/youve-got-mail-emails-and-robocalls-hit-home-in-promoting-medicaid-enrollment/
Some of them will move to places like California.
One thing that some Counties did in the run-up to the April 1st deadline, too, was to investigate and CHARGE people who were scamming the system.
Some of the rural southeastern Counties brought in extra Judges to handle the case load. If I recall one had something like 300 people charged in one small, rural county. May not sound like a lot, but with a total population around 15,000 it put a serious fear into anyone thinking of scamming the EBT system.
It’s just one of many benefits. It’s the ol’ “multiple streams of income” thing.
There was an article a while back about a young man who showed how he and his wife were able to earn over $70k in government handouts a year. One key, as I remember is, is that he had to claim his residence as his parents house while his wife claimed a different one. It was surprisingly simple, though.
Wow! When I worked in food stamps in 1981 it was $175 for 1 person with $0 income in California.
120 bucks buys, “A lot” at the grocery store? Good grief.
I can eat quite well on $32 a week, than you. That’s without the garden and hunting either.
I’ve been wondering why McDonald’s has gotten so expensive over the last ten years. It’s plan to see that they would go out of business if the U.S. government stopped subsidizing their customers.
Looks like the state saves $1,519,491.00.
Now that the stigma of being on welfare is gone, expect some very, very bright people to start finding new and creative ways make a killing off of the government.
Lots of unemployed PhDs out there.
I would, in a heartbeat. I would see it as getting my money back.
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