Thursday, November 15, 2007

Commentary on Public Assistance

I agree with you saying that their is a lot of people who manipulate public assistance programs to their advantage, such as Children's Health Insurance program (CHIP) food stamps, head start, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Woman, Infant, and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program and others. Yet, the system should be implemented to stop people from providing false information to obtain such benefits that could be well given to other individuals that do need the help. A lot of times people who do need the benefits are denied to them; for example, Children that need surgery's, elderly people or handicap people. Those are sometimes denied with the help. Now, it's not fair for people to take advantage of the system while they can work and provide to their family's. Somehow the federal government has provided 50 percent of the state's cost in administering the program, 50 percent of the state's costs for Food Stamp Program investigations and prosecutions. However, its simply not enough to make the system work properly.

November 15, 2007 9:30 PM

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