Fewer people will get food, Medicaid,
unemployment under Ohio bill requiring
more fraud checks, advocates say
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
by
Laura Hancock
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
2/25/2021 2:29:14 AM
An Ohio Senate bill that seeks to catch fraud among people applying for and receiving social services will result in increased work for county case workers, as well as fewer low-income people obtaining food aid, Medicaid and unemployment benefits, advocates for the poor said Wednesday.
Senate Bill 17 requires case workers to cross-check applicants and enrollees against state data such as new hire records, wage records, lottery winnings and death records, said sponsor Sen. Tim Schaffer, a Lancaster Republican.
Schaffer held up pictures during Wednesday’s Ohio Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee of food aid debit cards he said were found by investigators in drug houses.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/25/2021 2:59:40 AM (No. 707449)
Apparently Laura thinks the more fraud the better. After all, taxpayer money is free money and the goobermint can always tax for more.
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Yet not a word about the "fiance" formerly baby daddy living in the household and continuing to impregnate the mothers.
Why should these women get $1200 or more and be able to buy a wedding cake ? Then the school feeds the kids and they run from one food bank to another and schools collecting more. What about the ones collecting and shipping food out of the country ?
He didn't say he would cross check against Western Union wires out of the country either.
The real impoverished in this country is the elderly at food banks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
web 2/25/2021 4:59:15 AM (No. 707489)
They present the attempt to find fraud as somehow being a bad thing, as the poor and disadvantage will be hardest hit... guess we should just continue to allow the fraud to take place.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mifla 2/25/2021 5:04:19 AM (No. 707493)
Laura, it's called "doing your job".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/25/2021 5:06:19 AM (No. 707495)
The whole point of a "fraud check" is to get rid of fraudulent claims. So, yes!! Fewer people will get unemployment and other taxpayer-funded goodies.
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Leftists are always for more laws on the books except the ones that work as intended.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bobmadison 2/25/2021 6:51:47 AM (No. 707549)
Give me ONE good reason for getting off welfare...and beginning to pay taxes. With all the welfare, plus baby checks, can't think of one. Why work when the POLITICIANS make sure I don't have to. My momma didn't raise no fool.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tsquare 2/25/2021 8:36:52 AM (No. 707676)
I’m for it. Without details, I am aware of a family of welfare recipients where 4 adult children and one parent work, at notably decent jobs, have decent wheels, attend pro sport events, and vacation every two years at a posh seaside resort in Egypt. Another where the mother claimed as a dependent (for years) her drug dealing murdering son, who is living in a crowbar hotel for 50 years. The responsible agency has no procedures for rectifying fraud.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Yuban 2/25/2021 9:13:18 AM (No. 707725)
Isn't that the point of a fraud check?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JackBurton 2/25/2021 9:41:00 AM (No. 707771)
The State also wants to step up security at banks...
....which means that more lower income people will have a harder time robbing them and some of those will go without the extra income.
s/off
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 2/25/2021 10:02:43 AM (No. 707801)
And they might have to turn in the obama phones if there was a way to do it...which there isn't...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/25/2021 10:06:05 AM (No. 707803)
Eh what? A government is trying to be more honest? I'm shocked and dismayed. Illegal immigrants, Nigerians and scammers disproportionately affected.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/25/2021 10:37:40 AM (No. 707832)
Seems pretty much logical that if government bureaucrats look more closely for fraud that they will find more fraud and the fraudsters will be less successful in stealing taxpayer’s money. Well that’s the way it used to be in America.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 2/25/2021 10:37:42 AM (No. 707833)
"Fewer people will fraudulently get food, Medicaid and unemployment".....There, I fixed that BS claim.
Fewer frauds is a GOOD thing. Good for you, Ohio. And why wasn't this done years ago?
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