25M IS NOT a significant amount of 35B. Something is wrong. No program has a 1/10 of 1 percent fraud rate. IT SHOULD BE a lot higher. The figures are a lie. Again CA spends 35B A YEAR on welfare. A ten percent fraud rate would be 3.5B. My guess 10 percent is low....
This was a study of one program in MA, thus the amount CA spends on welfare is the wrong amount to be comparing it to. They found a 10% fraud rate in this one program. I would be unsurprised to find that people defrauding this are also defrauding other welfare programs.