Reply #28: Understand the system well enough to committ fraud?

[ThomCat]

ARe you kidding?

When you sign up a kid they ask for an address? How hard is it to ask your friend and babysitter "Hey, can I use your address because I don't have one? He's always at your house anyway."

Do you see any intent to commit fraud in that? Or do you see a mother trying to get her son to attend school like all the other kids?

Do you have any clue how easy it is to become homeless in this country, or how many millions of people are homeless right now? You don't need to have a disability. You only need to be poor.

If you don't have a job, and can't find a job, and you've been out of work for long enough that unemployment benefits have run out then you're probably homeless. Even if you get unemployment, if that is all you get, you are likely to be homeless if you weren't making very much at your last job.

Public assistance routinely rejects large numbers of people, including many who are qualified for assistance, who have appeal to get the assistance they are supposed to get. Public Advocates complain constantly about people being denied benefits they need and qualify for as a routine and organized attempt to reduce costs from public assistance budgets, despite the need that is out there. So people who are homeless go without help.

I am one of several people here who can tell you from personal experience what it is like to be homeless, and what it is like to be denied benefits that we were supposed to receive and qualified to receive that were supposed to help us.

It's really easy to imply that she was deliberately committing fraud, and that anyone smart enough to commit fraud shouldn't be homeless, but all that shows is that you really have no clue what you're talking about.