Georgia Legislators Get Advice on Stopping Welfare Cheating
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
A computer database that would impress the National Security Agency, limits on benefits and stepped-up prosecution were among the suggestions lawmakers heard Wednesday for ways to reduce welfare fraud.
A committee of relatively junior members of the House of Representatives is looking for ideas on trimming waste that its chairman, Rep. David Clark, said could have prevented $139 million in improper Georgia payments in 2013. Stopping abuse, he said, would free up benefit money for the truly needy.
