Welfare fraud

[james_1957]

Improper welfare payments, including fraud, are estimated to be 10.1% of all federal welfare payments made and totaled $71.5 billion in fiscal year 2015. This estimate is based on reports from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) , The General Accounting Office (GAO) [ii], and other federal agencies. Seven of the Welfare Programs make the OMB list of the top thirteen federal programs estimated to be “high error programs” - programs with improper payments greater than $750 million annually. These are highlighted below by individual program.

Total welfare improper payments and fraud of $71.5 billion is an enormous sum greater than the entire budgets of TANF, Child Nutrition, Head Start, Job Training, WIC, Child Care, LIHEAP and the Lifeline programs, combined. Explanations by OMB and GAO of the causes of improper payments are shown below by welfare program. In general, the high level of improper payments comes from the complexity and uniqueness of income qualifications in multiple welfare programs, the reliance on users for income qualification information and the inability of multiple agencies to adequately verify user information and adhere to standards and rules.

http://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-fraud.html

 

[Freudian_Slit]

http://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-fraud.html

We already have a TalkRadio. No need for a connie_1957.

 

[AngeloMichael]

Improper welfare payments, including fraud, are estimated to be 10.1% of all federal welfare payments made and totaled $71.5 billion in fiscal year 2015.* This estimate is based on reports from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)*, The General Accounting Office (GAO)*[ii], and other federal agencies.** Seven of the Welfare Programs make the OMB list of the top thirteen federal programs estimated to be “high error programs” - programs with improper payments greater than $750 million annually.** These are highlighted below by individual program.***

Total welfare improper payments and fraud of $71.5 billion is an enormous sum greater than the entire budgets of TANF, Child Nutrition, Head Start, Job Training, WIC, Child Care, LIHEAP and the Lifeline programs, combined.* Explanations by OMB and GAO of the causes of improper payments are shown below by welfare program.* In general, the high level of improper payments comes from the complexity and uniqueness of income qualifications in multiple welfare programs, the reliance on users for income qualification information and the inability of multiple agencies to adequately verify user information and adhere to standards and rules.

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Tax Avoidance Costs The U.S. Nearly $200 Billion Every Year

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...-billion-every-year-infographic/#637d70242f0d

Tax avoidance costs the world's*economies billions of dollars every year. Estimates of the scale of losses fluctuate widely but the IMF believes that somewhere in the region of $600 billion is lost due to profit shifting every year. A new paper published by UNU-WIDER*takes a closer look at the situation at country-level.

In absolute terms, the United States experiences*the highest annual corporate tax losses of any country by far with an estimated $189 billion unaccounted for every year. That's 1.13 percent of GDP.

But yeah, let's totally disrupt the lives of the poor to catch the scammers and let the rich off the hook. All for less revenue recoup as well. That's the way to run things!

 

[MGurkus]

http://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-fraud.html

STFU, Connie.

 

[Hypoxia]

Doesn't Apple owe about US$400 billion on taxable offshore assets? That'd pay for any civil (not corporate) welfare losses.