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| Thousands of dead Pennsylvanians received public assistance benefits |
| 2016-10-01 |
| [FOX43] An audit of the Department of Human Services found thousands of dollars in state public assistance benefit funds were paid out to recipients who were already deceased, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said Thursday. According to the audit, 2,324 recipients who were already dead received $693,161 in public assistance funds on their EBT accounts between July 2013 and June 2014. "Not only does DHS continue to put dollars on the cards assigned to individuals who have died, it often fails to detect use of those dollars," DePasquale said at a news conference Thursday. Digging deeper into some of these recipients, investigators found that benefits paid to deceased recipients were still being used to make purchases. "In one of the cases we found a cardholder who died on May 1, 2013, continued to receive $200 per month placed on their EBT card through September," he said in a news release. "Then, over a 22-day period in December 2013 and January 2014, nearly $800 in purchases were made with that card." The Department of Human Services disputed the numbers given by DePasquale, saying its calculations found $331,432 in incorrect payments over the same time period. The department claims it recovered $681,660 from the accounts of the deceased in this audit. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Deceased, Zombies, Now crazy Clowns. Halloween is going to be fun this year. |
| Posted by: Dale 2016-10-01 18:18 |
| #5 First the Dems established that the dead live because they receive benefits; next the dead will show up at the polls and vote Dem. FIFY - this has been the case for several time. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-10-01 15:16 |
| #4 if you retire and draw social security and you move to a foreign country, who reports the death? Who verifies they're still alive? I dunno how this works, but my dad, who was on social security, died in Europe after living there about 6 years, and within a week or so of his demise the State Department sent me a letter & their own form of death certificate to verify what happened. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-10-01 13:51 |
| #3 Reminds me of the line that Japan had the largest population of of people near or over 100. Till they did a checkup and found that the 'pensioners' had died and the families conveniently forgot to report the deaths to the government which would have stop the monthly checks. Watch those direct deposit schemes that 'save' the government money on printing those old dirty checks. BTW, if you retire and draw social security and you move to a foreign country, who reports the death? Who verifies they're still alive? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-01 12:49 |
| #2 First the Dems establish that the dead live because they receive benefits; next the dead will show up at the polls and vote Dem. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-01 06:45 |
| #1 Government is "the things we do together." Stupidly. Without adequate internal controls. Without adequate punishment for those of us who do it poorly. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-10-01 00:22 |