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Originally Posted by Qwertyy
DJ, you keep talking about "percentages" yet you haven't provided any actual evidence of this to be the case. .
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All you have to do is ask me to back it up with stats and I will go provide the stats for you.
I'm not going to do that extra work ahead of time. Pfft.
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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.
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http://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-fraud.html
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Originally Posted by Qwertyy
I think there are a lot of people on either side, abusing the system and needing the system. But I do not believe throwing money at a person (regardless of the sum) helps to fix a problem. Looking anecdotally at the issue, much like DWV, most people I've seen in these situations are there because more than anything else they're lazy. Tax dollars shouldn't have to pay them to sit around.
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The narrative and based off of people's personal experience. Most people think that everyone is conning and abusing the system but it's just not true. SNAP and Welfare is meant to be a safety net program for when people fall on hard times. When they get fired from their job and unemployment benefits isn't cutting it or whatever other situation that leads to them not being able to survive. I think everyone that can qualify for it should have access to it. It is temporary even though it doesn't seem like it based off how long people have been on it.