Posted on 02/18/2016 6:08:36 PM PST by Kaslin
Welfare fraud is an expensive problem that taxpayers everywhere are paying for, but in Missouri there is a movement in the state legislature to help stop the fraud.
State Representative Marsha Haefner has filed legislation that “will allow the Department of Social Services to contract with a third party vendor and establish a eligibility verification system.” This is a central component of the Stop the Scam reforms being implemented recently in several other states. Modern technology allows multiple databases to be compared and can determine if people who are signed up for welfare services are actually qualify for taxpayer funded support.
Rep. Haefner told reporters that, “This is an attempt at bending the curve of reining in welfare costs. We'll make sure that the people who get welfare are actually eligible to receive it.”
"We want to spend money on the right people for the right reasons, rather than those who don't have the need," Rep. Haefner said.
As she pointed out, “It’s all taxpayer money.”
Part of the job of each legislator and governor is not to waste the hard earned dollars of their taxpayers. It’s encouraging to see that Rep. Haefner agrees.
This is part of a greater welfare reform effort in Missouri that began during their last legislative session in 2015. Despite a veto from the governor, legislators pushed through a common sense reform bill into law with an override from both chambers at the state capitol. The bill focused on reforming Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) benefits.
The bill helps Missouri welfare recipients take important steps toward transitioning out of a lifetime of poverty and toward self-sufficiency. The law now requires “welfare recipients to take immediate steps to seek employment in order to receive benefits.” The money saved from these reforms will help those who need it most.
According to lawmakers, the state will “take the savings generated by these reforms and invest them in child care, education, transportation and job training assistance for participants in the program.”
With last year's efforts and the new legislation being proposed by Rep. Haefner, and supported by current Speaker Todd Richardson too, Missouri should be well on its way to providing a more prosperous future for their citizens; pulling them out of poverty and setting them on the road to a brighter future.
A new day is dawning folks.
We’re going to be seeing a lot more like this over the next four years.
Take heart.
The St. Louis and Kansas City politicians are whining that even if it is welfare fraud it’s money coming into their locales so we should just look the other way.
Dang racists! Wimmen,chirren and black folk hurt the most.
The economy will come to a screeching halt.
Welfare fraud is an expensive problem that taxpayers everywhere are paying for
There, fixed it.
Remember when Gingrich forced Cinton into signing welfare reform? Nothing changed.
That’s what they used to say when we wanted to cut Welfare or some other funding.
You can't "pull someone out of poverty" by giving them something that they didn't earn. That just re-enforces the behavior that keeps them poor.
A lot of these people did pay in, out of their earnings, before falling on hard times. To just snub them at this time seems cold. They put skin in the game, they should be able to get skin back out of it.
WOOOOOHOOOOO! HOORAY Missouri
yeah and then they give them 2 years more etc
if they were really serious they would start right away and include the illegal aliens ...make sure the recipients are American citizens...
Well Jebbie! is here and there must be something calling me to clean it...
maybe dusting the cobwebs off the pipes down in the crawl space would be exciting
LOL
Presumably, the reform will be able to tell these people from the scammers.
Oldplayer
fire the social workers and hire accountants
More riots and burning in Ferguson on the way.
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http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/fr32/speeches/su35fdr.htm
Funny how they omitted this FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) quote from the media:
Approximate 26th Paragraph of his speech
{FDR stands for Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd POTUS, cousin of the real President Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy) 26th POTUS.}
"The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole our relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers.
The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief."
For those who may not know, the word "relief" as used above, would be replaced today 2016, with the word "welfare."
Wrong. The Feds will put a stop to that real quick. They will be sued into oblivion.
Except the Feds will be under a different White House, and that different White House won’t buy into this.
The tide is turning.
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