[marajade]

"The other way is use a stolen Social Security card..."

Welfare workers check the name against the card and get info from Soc Sec admin...

[FITZ]

I know of a woman who had been illegal, was caught in Medicaid fraud ---using someone else's card for her free health care, she got in on the 80's amnesty and a year ago was caught shoplifting ---they found 4 separate ID's on her, they investigated and found she was collecting welfare on all four in 3 different states. You cannot honestly say welfare fraud never happens and in this case it was done by someone who never went to school or spoke English.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"
Welfare workers check the name against the card and get info from Soc Sec admin..."

Really? I write software for various welfare programs. There are no such checks.