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Originally Posted by dino
In Mass. they just did a welfare audit and found thousands of people that were either dead or living in other states that were receiving benefits. Welfare was put in place as temporary relief for people trying to get on their feet. Now it's mainly a lifetime thing. Welcome to Obama's world.
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This isn't quite accurate (I hadn't heard anything about this, and so I googled; I'm glad you mentioned it; it was interesting reading!). It wasn't thousands, it was a little under 1200. And it turns out the audit was pretty riddled with mistakes:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/3...welfare-audit/
Highly recommend the article- it also notes that the audit only gave about ten percent of the cases over for review and of those, only 17 cases ended up to be actual fraud. But the state took action against those deemed to be actually committing fraud, which is a good thing.
But the theme of this thread was about permanent disability, which isn't the same thing as welfare. And, on that note, I have a pretty hilarious article from Gawker:
http://gawker.com/workers-comp-scam-...-the-511199060
I can see the argument that spinning the Big Wheel twice is not the same as eight hours of lifting trays full of the US mail. But seriously, how stupid do you have to be to think that going on The Price is Right while you are on workman's comp is a good idea? Yeesh.
Mind you, this isn't federal permanent disability; this is workman's comp, where I think there is a LOT more fraud. Well, looks like she's going to have plenty of time to rest that bad shoulder when she gets sentenced.