Easy enough to do a thorough background check on this woman.
Very easy, actually.
Could be a problem with various name spellings/alias’, DOB’s, and SS#’s, possibly. And, she and her son have/had PO Boxes all over the country.
A Freeper did a “background check” on her. She and her son are from Buffalo, NY where they were interviewed by the local press in 2005 whining that their medical benefits were not sufficient and they actually had to pay in a little bit beyond Medicare.
He’s a computer programmer who has supposedly never been able to find a job, and she’s a woman in her late 50’s described as a “cancer survivor.” Heck, so are a lot of folks, including my mother, who doesn’t expect to get welfare for it.
They obviously float from state to state getting whatever bennies they can, and then decamp when it looks like the fraud authorities are going to catch on to them. Grifters is the word normally used to describe folks like this.