Why You Should Care

As with my last post, I suggested that a volunteer program be implimented in helping Income Maintance Workers with their heavy load of applicatiosn and reviews that they have. This heavy load keeps them bogged down and sometimes things get overlooked. Applications get passed for services when they are not truly eligible. The research is not fully done reguarding the information provided to see if applicants are truthful with the information they are supplying. Approximately 2% of those who recieve welfare services are commiting fraud.

That number rises to 69 percent when speaking about Unemployment insurance claims. But the one question unanswered is WHY?

There are a number of hotlines and websites where fraud can be reported, but why do you suppose that in the office itself, welfare fraud gets by. Sometimes its an issue of corruption such as in the story in San Diego where many officials were charged with corruption. (Reza,1992) Other information leads to belief that there is a lack of resources for offices conducting the review of applications. Many offices around the globe had been closed or cut back due to financial cut backs in state funding. http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/plan-to-cut-federal-spending Another way to do your part is to report those you know of or suspect of committed welfare fraud. (North West Justice Project 2013) Cited Resource 1). Reza, H.G., Bilbray Calls for Probe of Welfare Fraud Accusations , New York Times Rerieved from http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-14/local/me-209_1_welfare-fraud-investigators on December 14th 2013 2). North West Justice Project, Welfare Fraud, retrieved from http://www.washingtonlawhelp.org/resource/welfare-fraud-what-you-need-to-know#f on December 14th, 2013