Daily Caller – Caroline May
p 5/28/2013
Dead people continue to
collect benefits, their EBT cards continue to spend money. Do they continue to vote? And does this happen in your state? Read the whole article and reader comments
about inept government bureaucracy.
An audit of the
Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) issued Tuesday
revealed millions of dollars in “questionable benefits,” including millions paid out to dead
people.
According to Massachusetts
State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump, the audit identified 1,164 cases in which
welfare recipients continued to receive benefits from six to 27 months after
they had died. These dead individuals received $2.39 million in total.
In most of the cases the
auditors sampled, deceased individuals’ Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards
was discovered to still be in use — thus leading to the assumption that people
other than the intended recipients were using the benefits.
Additionally, the audit
revealed that DTA paid out at least $368,000 in benefits to 178 guardians who
were claiming dead individuals as dependents. In another category, auditors
found 40 benefit recipients who were being claimed by more than one guardian.
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