Inefficiency and cash aspects of benefits programs makes them too easy to exploit

Benefit programs usually don't issue cash and i don't understand why people on housing dont receive vouchers

The article should have done a better job explaining how they converted the assistance to cash. Im pretty sure section 8 doesn't give out cash

 

The program where the government pays someone to be a caregiver is a job. But that wouldn't account for all the money this lady got

 

The free rider problem is not new. They make up a minute fraction of benefits (which are rarely ever cash) recipients and most end up getting busted like these two dinks. It's political theater to raise hell over a 0.2% rate of fraud/abuse. Further, these two appear to be abusing housing vouchers, so this was likely not cash but something they were able parlay into cash. The fact they had to create multiple identities, forge state documents, and keep up this charade of caregiver/disabled (and still got caught) should tell you how easy this actually is.

 

Here’s another record case, in NY.

The faces of welfare in America




https://www.knoe.com/content/news/13-arrested-in-record-welfare-fraud-sweep-511413492.html

 

u need to venture out of ur cave sometimes.

Westminster, CA, is a suburb in Orange County, CA; it was the epic center of the blue wave of 2018

all 8 of the suburb districts in the OC are now represented by Dems, 6 of them were flipped as part of the 2018 blue wave.
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why do the dems need to tighten it up?

this is a Republican county.

 

u can't possibly be this ill-informed

in 2016, 6 of those OC districts voted for Trump;

in 2018, the voters there flipped and voted for Trump's opposition


the Trump party needs to tighten up, cos the suburban voters in the OC are turning against them​

 

Milton Friedman said it best. The problem with poverty is not enough money. Better to give funds directly and
increase earned income tax credit so people making under certain amounts pay no taxes and receive a cash subsidy
annually when filing taxes.

Then let people decide where to spend and on what and reduce the administrative state controlling and trying to influence
peoples lives.

 

Sooo many expert economists on a basketball message board. I love it!