Louisiana gave away $1.3 million in food stamps to deceased people

NOLA - The Times-Picayune ^ | July 07, 2014 at 5:45 PM, updated July 08, 2014 at 7:28 AM | By Julia O'Donoghue

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Louisiana spent about $1.3 million on food stamps for people who were already dead between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2013, according to a report issued by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor Monday (July 7).

In all, state benefits went out to 3,938 deceased people over the four-year period examined by the auditor. The Louisiana auditor only reviewed records concerning single people who had died. The total amount of money spent on food stamps for single people in Louisiana during this time was $1.08 billion.

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Stories on the bad auditors:

Freerepublic: US Attorney: Third DCFS auditor accused in fraud case

[NOLA.com] Second state auditor charged in DCFS fraud scheme

Freerepublic: Louisiana state audit director charged with fraud

So the three are:

Delrice Augustus (he was director of auditing for DCFS)

Corey S. Polk (buddy of Delrice, also was auditor of DCFS, involved in fraud/corruption)

Kaneasha Goston (buddy of Delrice, also was auditor of DCFS, involved in fraud/corrpution)

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I imagine that Jindal is checking the voter rolls on that...

At least I hope he did.

As for kick backs, the article states that money will be deducted from benefits until the money stolen because of not reporting dead relatives is returned to the state government.

So if someone received $1000 from the dead relative in Food Stamps, then money is deducted until the $1000 is paid off.

How that is done is unclear.

But in a similar situation, where a state employee raised the Food Stamp limit because of the government shutdown, I don't think the people on Food Stamps can get Food Stamps until that is paid back.

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Bobby Jindal is the Governor and is a Republican.

He really has done things to turn some things around in Louisiana.

However, there are a number of things wrong in Louisiana...

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All good Irishmen.

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They need to display pictures of themselves in their new ORANGE clothes.

The auditors that did this are already in prison, I believe...