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Home Front: Politix
Welfare recipients 'missing'
2013-01-05
[BOSTON HERALD] Red-faced state officials admitted last night they are trying to find as many as 19,000 missing welfare recipients -- after the controversial taxpayer-funded voter registration pitches the state mailed to their addresses last summer were sent back marked "Return to sender, address unknown."

The Department of Transitional Assistance contacted 477,000 welfare recipients who were on their books from June 1, 2011, to May 31, 2012, after settling a voter-rights lawsuit brought by Democratic-leaning activist groups that demanded an aggressive voter information effort by the state. That $274,000 push by DTA resulted in 31,000 new voter registrations -- but revealed an alarming number of welfare recipients whose residency in Massachusetts can't be confirmed.

"DTA is in the process of contacting those clients for which a forwarding address was prov­ided to verify their addresses, as a change of address might impact their eligibility," a statement from the agency said.
Posted by:Fred

#4  So the answer to how many hotel rooms in chief warren's district is: 31,000.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-01-05 13:02  

#3  Follow the transactions and you find the culprits. A good chance they are collecting in 2 or more states at the same time. Two Givernment checks are always better than one.
Posted by: airandee   2013-01-05 11:30  

#2  Oh, those poor people; not only on welfare but now homeless (or at least address-less) too! We must go find them and make sure they are still getting all their benefits.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-01-05 09:12  

#1  ...So, the money kept going to people whose addresses can't be confirmed and (as has been noted)probably voted anyways.

I suppose matching the names to the voting records got swatted down right quickly...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2013-01-05 08:34  

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