My brother owned a house in a very bad section of town
He rented it out, and they paid the first month rent and moved in. They never paid again. it took him months to evict them
The next tenant did the same thing. And the next, and the next...
Finally, he learned his lesson and showed up to collect the welfare check for rent on the first of the month when the mailman brought it and THE FIRST FOUR TENANTS WERE THERE TOO WAITING FOR A CHECK - THEY WERE STILL GETTING RENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR MY BROTHERS ONE APARTMENT.
You would think a simple database check would have noticed 5 rent checks being sent to the same address.
So don’t even try to tell me there is no fraud, I’ve seen it first hand.
He reported them to Welfare and the checks stopped, so they burned his place down. He didn’t learn anything, he is still a stupid liberal.
Illegal aliens can get SNAP, housing, and Medicaid almost as soon as they walk across the border. They’re given an “immigrant registration number” and a court date for a deportation hearing, then released.
To get welfare benefits, they only need to fill in their “immigration registration number” on the application, which also requires an address. You’d think, then, that the address in welfare records would make it easy to go get ‘em when they don’t show up for their deportation hearing. But noooooo...
So much fraud is being abetted by the US government.
A dope dealer who owned several vacant, blighted 4-plexes was collecting section-8 rent subsidies, and using the rent money to purchase more drugs and expand his drug empire. The apartments were vacant; he just had various women in the neighborhood (who had multiple fake IDs and SS#s) get the vouchers and claim to live there. The rent was auto-deposited into his account. He’d give them kickbacks in cash or drugs. Section 8 is supposed to inspect the properties but didn’t, so it was years before anyone caught on that they weren’t even occupied.
Another woman who owned her house had 2 identities. So she posed as both landlady and tenant, got paid “rent” on the taxpayer’s dime to live in her own house. They should take pictures, or thumbprints. Or something.