Posted on 04/08/2016 9:15:51 AM PDT by kevcol
The Federal Communications Commission has announced plans to fine a mobile provider $51 million for defrauding its Lifeline program, which subsidizes wireless service for low-income Americans.
The FCC accused California-based Total Call Mobile of fraudulently enrolling tens of thousands of duplicate and ineligible consumers in the Lifeline program.
The company received an estimated $9.7 million dollars in improper payments since 2014, according to the FCC. In the fourth quarter of that year, 99.8% of the company's enrollments allegedly involved overriding a system designed to stop the registration of duplicate customers.
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Keep Obama in president, you know! He gave us a phone.
Fraud? In a government giveaway program? How unexpected. </s
Why is it that, in all these Welfare fraud cases, the freeloaders who actually commit the fraud and get two cell phones or extra benefits never get prosecuted? That’s what needs to happen.
Exactly so! There are records! They should have to pay back every damn penny!..................PLUS INTEREST!.....................AND A FINE!..........................
One woman had SIX of these damn things!......................
None of my congressional representatives have been able to explain what happens with all of the money from these fines.
There is apparently no congressional oversight of the use of these funds.
99.8% is an unbelievable level of fraud. I don’t believe it. Even the lady in Cleveland only had 30 phones.
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Give ‘em a phone, they take a case...
The fines aren’t even enough to pay for one of Moochelle’s vacations.
>Fraud? In a government giveaway program? How unexpected
Correct: In a govt WELFARE program.
Giving away that which isn’t theirs to begin, let alone have no authority nor right
>Exactly so! There are records! They should have to pay back every damn penny!..................PLUS INTEREST!.....................AND A FINE!..........................
Come on, it’s ONLY taxpayer $$. They’re ‘entitled’
Because...??...RACIST!
Reparations by fiat........................
>Reparations by fiat
Illegal/unconstitutional, by any other name, is still...
But, yes, concur. Haven’t we paid for those years the U.S. (IE: post 1776)?? Still waiting for Africa and the Muslim nations to pony up...and the Swedes, and the Native Americans and the ....
I worked for our welfare dept in the food stamp program for years. It was rare that a fraud case went to trial but when it did and they were found guilty they didn’t cut off their food stamps. I guess that would be mean. They put them on a ‘payment schedule’ that was held out of their food stamp allotment. Lol
Arabs........................
a frivolous reply to a serious concern.
You are correct sir. It would be racist, to actually prosecute the dirt bags who take advantage of the situation. S/
>You are correct sir. It would be racist, to actually prosecute the dirt bags who take advantage of the situation. /S
Oh, I enjoy stories such as these.
These are the low-hanging fruit of ‘Why Socialism doesn’t work’ and ‘If we were only a Republic still’.
Just think of the time, man-hours and $$ saved if the program(s) didn’t exist to begin; and economic slavery didn’t exist.
Course, the (R) ‘opposition’ party can’t even articulates the above; the (L) gets a ‘loony’ rap and even smaller parties are lost to the wind (but, IMO, would swell if People even LISTENED).
Well, it was a nice Republic...while it lasted.
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