Benefits Fraud: A Persistent Problem in All States
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child care advocates speak at a news conference last month in the Minnesota state capitol building in St. Paul.
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The Trump administration has escalated its campaign against alleged benefits fraud, freezing social services funding for five Democratic-led states and announcing a new fraud-focused position in the Justice Department that will report directly to the White House.Officials also point, without evidence, to immigrants as the primary drivers of the fraud.
Late Friday a district judge in New York blocked the funding freeze for now.
Public policy experts say the structure of U.S. safety-net programs does create opportunity for scammers, and more could be done to tackle that. At the same time, ther“`html
