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Limiting Welfare
Woman wins $33,000 lottery in Pennsylvania but is still collecting welfare (Deace). Iranian Royalty scams welfare out of $300 a month living in a million dollar home “Prosecutor: Ohio Millionaire Was Collecting Food Stamps, Medicaid Benefits”. Scams like this are one reason why welfare should change policies and regulations. The people that are caught scamming the government are prosecuted and spend jail time, but the millions of dollars usually are never paid back. Along with the scams, the welfare system has more problems that need to be changed. Today the system is not as efficient as the initial intentions are, because of this it causes more dependency on government money and aid makes citizens become negligent.
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