Officials in Maryland several years ago managed to disable one of the systems that was supposed to check whether food stamp applications had a low enough income to qualify for the benefit.
Officials in Maryland several years ago managed to disable one of the systems intended to check whether food stamp applicants had low enough income to qualify for the benefit.
Sen. Joni Ernst, the Senate’s top waste-watcher, said that type of error has the Agriculture Department’s food stamp program, officially named the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, blowing nearly $1 billion a month in overpayments on double-dippers or wholly ineligible recipients. Ms. Ernst is announcing legislation Tuesday to eliminate the error “tolerance threshold” and require a more exact accounting of waste.
Even more appalling to Ms. Ernst were the cases in which food stamp fraud was led by the very people who run the food stamp program in the states. Ms. Ernst is scrutinizing food stamps as the government as a whole reels from incalculable levels of fraud, particularly in the wake of the pandemic emergency.
“What happened during COVID is the criminals learned that government is the easiest place to steal from. And they’re accelerating,” Mr. Talcove told The Washington Times this summer. “Until the government hardens its systems, then they’re going to continue. Trying to catch them, with this many doing it, is virtually impossible. There’s just not enough resources.”
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