Essay On Welfare Fraud

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Welfare fraud appears to have been conduct for the purpose of maintaining a balance in the bank of government funding without supply this balance to the income assisted persons of society. From a legal standpoint the proposal that all persons are capable of obtaining and maintaining a working occupation that supplies a wage, this purpose makes perfect sense. However, the law does not make the allowances for the circumstances that have given rise to the reason these persons on welfare assistance which in turn creates a cycle for the victimization of poverty stricken families and persons residing in society. Social Welfare to Neo-Liberalism With the Federal legislation of the Canada Health and Safety Transfer (CHST) being a “block fund for…show more content…
There are no grace periods or leniency given to families on income assistance because every family is assumed to be capable of defrauding the welfare system to receive higher subsidiaries to support their family with. The system demonstrates this through their statistics but does not allow for administrative error, instead the statistic report shows “all of the errors that resulted in overpayments (but tellingly not underpayments) of welfare” (Mosher, 2005). The system further creates criminalization of these statistics by offering numerical monetary figures depicting the overpayment and by including that number of fraud investigated cases without differentiating between those cases where there was established fraud and those cases where fraud could not be…show more content…
The system treats income from any shape or form (i.e., “gifts, and in some parts of the province, leftovers from meals”) are to be reported as income and count against your monthly subsidiary. Any non-disclosure of any aspect of a welfare assisted person is treated as fraud by the terms set out in the welfare regulation system. There is little detail and explanation given as to what the extent of these disclosures should and/or can constitute and as a result they are up for interpretation by the Eligibility Review Officer assigned to the applicant’s

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