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Hundreds Use Fake IDs for Food Stamps[NC][Social Security Numbers]
WRAL.com ^ | 12 Dec 2007 | WRAL

Posted on 12/14/2007 6:31:06 AM PST by BGHater

Raleigh — A state audit has found that hundreds of people have used bogus Social Security numbers to obtain food stamps.

From July 2002 to last April, 1,906 people were receiving food stamps from the state Department of Social Services based on invalid Social Security numbers, the audit report stated. Another 1,237 food stamp recipients were using the Social Security numbers of dead people, according to the audit.

DSS security measures had previously disqualified 5,840 people from the food stamp program after determining they were using phony Social Security numbers, according to the audit.

The error rate was much less than 1 percent, which is an acceptable level, the audit report stated.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: aliens; falseid; foodstamps; fraud; ids; immigrantlist; nc; socialsecurity
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1 posted on 12/14/2007 6:31:07 AM PST by BGHater
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To: BGHater

But but but these poor people need to eat so they can attend the colleges. Rolls eyes.


2 posted on 12/14/2007 6:35:57 AM PST by donnab (saving liberal brains...one moron at a time.)
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To: BGHater
Here's the way my local paper spun this story yesterday:

Few lie to get food stamps, auditors find

3 posted on 12/14/2007 6:36:18 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: BGHater
Could these people possibly be -- dare I say it -- illegal aliens? That's a wild possibility, I know, but it just occurred to me. LOL.

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4 posted on 12/14/2007 6:36:37 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: BGHater
The error rate was much less than 1 percent, which is an acceptable level, the audit report stated.

No, a 0% rate is acceptable. I'm sure that's an impossibility, but at least it's a goal to aim for.

5 posted on 12/14/2007 6:37:29 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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To: Congressman Billybob

Come on pal.....there isnt any illegals in NC!


6 posted on 12/14/2007 6:37:32 AM PST by rrrod
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To: donnab

7 posted on 12/14/2007 6:39:05 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: BGHater
The error rate was much less than 1 percent, which is an acceptable level...

Really? Tell that to the victims. God these people make me sick!

8 posted on 12/14/2007 6:39:20 AM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: BGHater
NC not the only place this is going on. I suspect this goes on all over the country. From yesterday in Washington Times:

Welfare loopholes found in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland paid welfare benefits to about 52,000 residents who in 2006 did not provide Social Security numbers or used invalid ones, according to a state audit of the Family Investment Administration. The report, completed by the state Office of Legislative Audits, also found the computer software used to check eligibility for the federal food-stamps program and the state cash-assistance program could not check 90 percent of the recipients. The administration paid out $488 million from July 2006 to June 2007....

9 posted on 12/14/2007 6:39:33 AM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: BGHater
Nawth Carolina is proving that it is the New Jersey of the SE.

Why, oh why, do so many "good ol' boys" down there vote Democrat in state and local elections, when all its brought them is licenses for felons, food stamp fraud, and the 10th highest tax burden in the US?

10 posted on 12/14/2007 6:42:59 AM PST by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: BGHater

Prey tell who would use someone else’s SS#. Could they be illegal?


11 posted on 12/14/2007 6:48:25 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Clemenza

Because to many dam yankees from the narth est are moving in.....


12 posted on 12/14/2007 6:49:23 AM PST by captnorb
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To: BGHater

Is there anyone in jail yet?


13 posted on 12/14/2007 6:51:14 AM PST by Haddit (Hunter is still the Best)
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To: donnab
But but but these poor people need to eat so they can attend the colleges. Rolls eyes.

Beta me to it by a nano second ! :)

14 posted on 12/14/2007 7:07:55 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: BGHater
From July 2002 to last April, 1,906 people were receiving food stamps from the state Department of Social Services based on invalid Social Security numbers, the audit report stated. Another 1,237 food stamp recipients were using the Social Security numbers of dead people, according to the audit.

*snort* This is news to these people? Folks have been doing this since the advent of Food Stamps. It's also how one person collects multiple welfare payments, using several different SS numbers to get welfare for each of those 'people'.

15 posted on 12/14/2007 7:08:03 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Congressman Billybob
Could these people possibly be -- dare I say it -- illegal aliens?

Probably not, we've had our own homegrown welfare cheats for decades. My Mama was a transcript clerk at a university in MS, 35 years ago, and told me of a call she received once from a woman who wanted an unofficial copy of her transcript. When Mama got her SS#, it didn't show that she'd graduated, only that she'd taken a couple of classes. Then the woman gave Mama a different name and SS#, and there it was. The woman had two SS# and had forgotten which one to use. Mama kept both numbers and called the local Soc. Sec. Admin. office. They basically said "ho-hum". Mama was furious!

16 posted on 12/14/2007 7:12:56 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Cut ‘em off and arrest ‘em for fraud. If they’re illegal aliens, beat ‘em within an inch of their lives and send ‘em home. If they’re not, send ‘em to Sherrif Joe and let them work REALY REALLY hard for their food...


17 posted on 12/14/2007 7:13:20 AM PST by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: donnab

Libs’ attitude toward the poor is that we are required to provide for their needs.

However, when we see someone buying better food with foodstamps than we are with our EARNED cash, we DO have the right to be resentful.

We also have the right to be resentful when said foodstamp purchaser has perfect hair and nails, the latest iPhone, and puts his/her groceries in a new Escalade.


18 posted on 12/14/2007 7:16:41 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Clemenza

Route 13 is like the Alice in Wonderland tunnel from N.C. to NJ/NY.

Bars and strip joints all along the road. Young men in colors piled in the cars with N.C. plates.

N.C. kinda fell off the radar news wise when the black market cigarette ring was exposed and connected to the Michigan and Lackawanna cell. But I do remember food stamps being mentioned on the black market then too when that was in the news.


19 posted on 12/14/2007 7:21:56 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: BGHater

Why doesn’t this surprise me?


20 posted on 12/14/2007 7:22:03 AM PST by NRA1995 (Mr. President and Congress: This is OUR country and don't you forget it!)
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