>> to lose benefits for a year
Then what? They get benefits for years thereafter? Why?
Well I can tell you that here when someone is caught frauding tanf, food stamps, etc. if it is a smaller amount (not millions) they just hold a certain amount out of the frauded benefit every month until the amount is paid off. Kind of a payment system.
Their rationale is that you wouldn’t want the ‘CHILDREN’ to be without a place to live or food. Yes, I am dead serious.