31 Arrested in Orange County Welfare Fraud Sweep
31 people have been arrested in the Orange County area for social welfare fraud. Orange County authorities recently began a harsher crack down on the citizens suspected of fraud and the harder investigation paid off with the 31 arrests. "Social Welfare is not chicken feed," says the Orange County Police Sheriff. Authorities say that this will not happen anymore.
The Orange County Sheriff announces that this wasn't a small sum of taxpayer money, like a couple hundred dollars. This was upwards to 400,000 dollars stolen from taxpayers. The 31 men and women were found defrauding Medicare, public assistance, food stamps, and day care programs. Just finding these many cases took several months and in depth planning, but Orange County is not about to stop the hunt on fraud.
There are more cases of fraud than we really can handle in the US and it's a big problem, financially, for our economy. Maybe the more frequent cases aren't as severe as stealing 400,000 dollars, but there is a large amount of people who abuse the welfare system. While I believe welfare is something this country needs to have, I also believe that a solution needs to be found to prevent future abuse in such a large and impactful way.
It's terrible to see that people are taking advantage of the welfare systems that were put in place to help people in need.
ReplyDeleteInvestigations need to be conducted across the country looking into fraud. If this many people were found in only a small area than how many others does the rest of the country hold? The welfare system gets taken advantage of way too much and results in an extreme waste of tax payer dollars.
ReplyDeleteTaking advantage of the welfare system is very common in our society. I am surprised that a bigger deal is not made of it. I think the whole system is screwed up honestly.
ReplyDeleteI mean if I was in the shoes I would take advantage of it to. It is so easy to just be a lazy peice of crap and do nothing to just collect welfare. When that person could just be out looking for work. Like everybody else, because that welfare money just comes for the taxes of the working people. So in a way it is kinda mess up.
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