http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/19/g-a-o-report-finds-fraud-at-head-start-centers/
Federal undercover investigators found workers at federally financed child care centers frequently misrepresenting information about applicants’ job status and earnings to fraudulently register ineligible children, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued Tuesday.
The investigators posed as parents or guardians of fictitious children and used bogus pay stubs and other documents to seek to register for day care services at Head Start centers, the report said. In 8 of 15 undercover tests, employees lied on federal forms about the applicants’ family income and other information to gain approval for the ineligible children, the report said.
Head Start, an agency of the Health and Human Services Department ith a budget of about $9 billion this year, provides child care and other services to nearly one million children nationwide. To be eligible, children must be from families whose incomes do not exceed 130 percent of the poverty level, or about $28,600 a year for a family of four.
This kind of fraud occurs every day in a wide variety of federal programs, and it will CONTINUE to happen as long as the government forces the taxpayers to fund them.
When faced with the opportunity for some "free money," is it a surprise that many people will do anything to get it? The only way to remove the fraud from such programs is to stop funding them. No free money = no fraud needed.
What say we start our budget cuts by eliminating any program that experiences a wide-spread and pervasive pattern of abuse and fraud?
So basically...the more entitlements you hand out...the larger the ratio for corrupt claims? At some point...folks might figure out this scheme.
ReplyDeleteWell, Ripley... too many people have ALREADY figured out this scheme. That's why we have the problem we do.
ReplyDeleteBut the looters seem to be more intelligent than our politicians.
I hope you aren't asking for an IQ test of our Senators. It's hard enough for them to stay sober for six hours out of the day...avoid saying using thirty-three different cuss words in public...always speak via the Republican or Democratic speech standard...remember where your office is...and then remember that you are actually from a real state and not from the DC area.
ReplyDeleteWaste, Fraud, Abuse, "Government" is thy name.
ReplyDeleteIQ test? No. I was merely observing that the looters have figured out how to easily defraud the system, while the politicians don't seem capable of doing ANYTHING to stop it. That makes the looters smarter.
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