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Oh, there are individuals who scam the system with impunity but the larger issues in welfare fraud are the schemes by organized entities that hugely rip off government programs.
For example I have been reading about the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal in Minnesota. The total amount stolen across the entire scandal is now estimated to range between $300 million and $400 million.
The number of defendants federally charged in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud has now reached 73. Fifty have been convicted.
Almost every defendant is a first- or second-generation Somali immigrant. In a case that has yet to be charged, Somalis figure prominently in a Minnesota Medicaid fraud that bears some of the hallmarks of the Feeding Our Future case, but nothing will ever top that one.
Somali Minnesotans are also also featured in Minnesota’s apparent daycare fraud. In 2023 it was reported that about half of the defendants then charged in the Feeding Our Future case had been paid tens of millions more in state money for services such as providing child care and assisting seniors and people with disabilities.
For more details see:
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/from-feeding-the-kids-to-fleecing-the-government-inside-the-countrys-largest-covid-fraud/
I agree, Fred. Both phenomena are problems, each in their own way. It is yet another example of why the welfare state as it is currently administered is a huge mistake.