Is it legal to force reparations from dishonest recipients of welfare and disability?

People who defraud public benefits programs are required to pay back any overpayments and can be prosecuted for fraud. While there is some abuse of the system (as with any government program), it's really quite rare. People are not looking for handouts. Many such individuals ARE or were taxpayers who have become disabled or have fallen on hard times. Your attitude would change if you lost your livelihood, couldn't find work and had to support a family.

Educating people on benefits programs to assist them and their families is a good thing.

People may have expensive cars when they lose their jobs; but, that doesn't make them any less entitled to unemployment benefits that they contributed to as taxpayers. And the proverbial Cadillacs in front of the welfare office most likely belong to staff.

Yes, it has been done. There have been many cases where people went on disability and were later photographed dancing with supposed "chronic back pain", riding motorcycles, etc. Those people were prosecuted and the money had to be returned.

I imagine the situation is the same with things like welfare and section 8 housing, etc, but there aren't a lot of policies in place where those committing fraud can be found out by the Dept of Welfare or Housing directly. A lot of these people get jobs off the books and apply for assistance when they don't need it and sometimes they're reported by neighbors or landlords.

My mother works for a company that "trains" welfare recipients to get jobs.

They don't want to work.

Or there are some that cannot, but a majority of them do not want to work. It's sad really...

She was told that a lot of changes are coming so I do hope that something changes. I mean, why do they have expensive cell phones? I don't. My tax money just paid for their cell phone.

Yes there are laws already in place, no money to pay people to enforce the rules, just like everything else! If the cops and people like you who find these things out, aren't turning them in, you're not helping the situation!

no longer real once you look by and vast percentage of the U.S. inhabitants. because the U.S. has a inhabitants of seventy 4% whites and they make up purely 40-one% of those on welfare it really is a miles extra effective statistic then having a inhabitants of 13.4% African human beings and them making up 36% of those on welfare. The U.S. inhabitants's distribution by ability of race and ethnicity in 2006 changed into as follows:[32][32][33] * entire inhabitants: 299 million * White on my own: seventy 4% or 221.3 million o no longer such because the 32][33.2 million White Hispanic and Latino human beings: sixty six% or 198.a million million * Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, of any race: 14.8% or about 40 4.3 million * Black or African American on my own: 13.4% or 40.9 million * another race on my own: 6.5% or 19 million * Asian on my own: 4.4% or 13.a million million * 2 or extra races: 2.0% or 6.a million million * American Indian or Alaska community on my own: 0.sixty 8% or 2.0 million * community Hawaiian or different Pacific Islander on my own: 0.14% or 0.40 3 million those figures upload as a lot as more suitable than one hundred% in this record because Hispanic and Latino human beings are dispensed between each and each and every of the races and are also listed as an ethnicity classification, ensuing in a double count number.

I would love to see that happen. I know of 2 people who get SSI and welfare who are able to work but dont. They are both drug addicts and get housing and food stamps. I bust my butt to earn a fair wage and pay my bills and feed my family. Its time we bust these folks and start making it harder to rip off the taxpayer.

Well, I've heard rumors that lots of CEOs are being investigated for their illegal receipt of welfare. For instance, Obama is closing the loop hole that allows them to get welfare money for sending US jobs offshore. Definitly a step in the right direction

in the uk its fraud which carries a nice fine could also lead to jail