Yep. My mom is a welfare caseworker & she says this is the situation more often than not. These women apply for welfare, say they don’t know who the fathers is & that they’re not receiving child support, yet my mom will come time find out that the man is living with the woman & his income is not being reported. Problem is, the gov has the system set up so that my mom cannot yank the client’s benefits. She has to file a report, do mountains of paperwork which then ends up on some beaurocrat’s desk & wait for it to be “reviewed” which can be a year or so later.
Just ridiculous. The amount of fraud that gets let go is amazing. And the trash knows it, too. So they just continue to exploit the system. Is it any wonder we have a society with an entitlement mentality?
The system encourages sloth and dishonesty. The welfare recipients KNOW how much they can earn before benefits are cut off. They have three choices:
#1 Limit work so as to not exceed the benefit limit.
#2 Work off the books and/or defraud the system by not honestly reporting all income, including other wage earners.
#3 Work harder to increase income, thereby LOSING benefits, like free food and medical care, and making LESS effective income for their children.
Is it any wonder that option #3 is the path less traveled?