re: Defcon 1 imminent: Trump says Welfare reform is coming

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I can tell you from having family retiring from the welfare office here in Louisiana that they don't check and the excuse is they don't have the resources allocated to do so.

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That's part of the point- the effort of accurately detecting and proving fraud (let alone recouping resources from it) can be costly. This is never acknowledged when politicians handwave about rooting out fraud, waste, or abuse. And, the benefits of doing this, aside from being speculative, need to be carefully considered in dollar terms. Not anecdotes.

I'm not saying there's not some change here and there to be saved. I'm saying whatever is attainable savings-wise isn't going to be a big deal and is not ever worth mentioning as some sort of fix to our budget problems.

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Back in the 90s when welfare reform was passed, Michigan saw a 25% drop credited mostly to ineligible people being taken off.

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Would like to get a link on this