hypocritexposer
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spent $5 billion through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program in 2009, doling out money to states with little oversight of the program. Some states don’t verify applicants’ identifies or income. For example, the program helped pay the electric bill of a woman who lives in a $2 million home in a wealthy Chicago suburb and drives a Mercedes, according to the yet-to-be released report obtained by The Associated Press.
They go on:
• HHS paid $3.9 million to 11,000 applicants who used the identities of dead people.
• HHS paid $370,000 to 725 applicants who were in prison.
• HHS paid $671,000 to about 1,100 people who made more than the maximum income to qualify for the program.
Illinois paid $840 toward energy bills for a U.S. Postal Service employee who fraudulently reported zero income even though she earned about $80,000 per year. “Times are tough and I needed the money,” she told investigators.
New Jersey paid $3,200 to a nursing home on behalf of eight patients after the home’s director applied for assistance. The patients’ nursing home care was already paid by Medicaid.
Virginia provided three payments totaling $2,400 to three separate applicants at the same address, according to the report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100701/ap_on_re_us/us_electric_bill_fraud