“overhead cost”
The benefits are placed electronically on cards.
Periodic assertion of eligibility is required, I believe.
The benefits are placed electronically on cards.
Periodic assertion of eligibility is required, I believe.
These programs are run by huge government administrations. It is a huge pyramid of government employees (federal, regional, state and local). These employees have salaries, pension costs, health insurance for them and their families. There are office buildings and utility expenses. Meetings and travel costs. The meetings have prior meetings to set agendas and invitation lists for the real meeting. There are meeting minutes that are redlined and updated numerous times. There are reports and these reports will be rejected numerous times at each level. There are rules are set and distributed and are being revised before the ink is dry. There are vision statements and diversity plans with comments and revisions so that they are never really finished. And there are reports and forms to be filed for everything. Each level of organization has power over the ones under it in the pyramid. Power is not letting the lower levels do their jobs. Power is making those under you jump through hoops.
Money flows into these organizations in gushes and flows out to recipients in drops. This is government that is a monopoly. There is no competition, no need to work hard. The money that gets used for the above activity does not go to food expenses, it is the "overhead expense". These expenses are usually not even tracked. Some estimates are that for every dollar that is appropriated for a program only a dime gets to the final recipient. That is what I meant by overhead cost.