Is the welfare system working in America? It depends on whom you ask. The unemployed dental patient receiving Medicaid welfare insurance, who gets all their dental work completed free of charge, certainly feels the system is working. However, the employed dental patient who pays for their own dental insurance and receives less benefits, may feel differently. Americans, for the most part, are generous people and are willing to financially assist those in need. The uncertainty of employment, a death in the family or disability can affect anyone of us at anytime. Welfare is a safety net for those who fall on hard times. It was enacted to temporarily aid those who truly are in need. Just as Americans are willing to assist a fellow citizen in need
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This act gave lump sums of money to individual states to assist the poor but yet encouraged recipients to move from welfare to the workforce. (Bill Clinton Welfare and Poverty) This act would provide assistance for a limited amount of time and require that recipients seek employment. Some report that this reform did reduce the amount of people on welfare but others suggest that some needy Americans suffered because of it. It is debatable whether this reform was a step in the right direction. The complexity of the welfare system makes it difficult to accurately detect …show more content…
Some American’s tend to take the perceived easier path in life. Those who are content to live in poverty and receive a taxpayer’s free gift in the form of food stamps or housing allowance, will often lie, cheat and defraud the government to be certain the gift continues. The most notorious welfare fraud case occurred in Chicago in the 1970’s. A woman named Linda Taylor defrauded the government out of $150,000 annually by using eighty different names, thirty addresses and fifteen phone numbers. She collected food stamps, social security and veteran’s benefits from four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands. The fraud was so extensive that Americans coined the phrase, “welfare queen” to describe her. (The Truth Behind The
This act gave lump sums of money to individual states to assist the poor but yet encouraged recipients to move from welfare to the workforce. (Bill Clinton Welfare and Poverty) This act would provide assistance for a limited amount of time and require that recipients seek employment. Some report that this reform did reduce the amount of people on welfare but others suggest that some needy Americans suffered because of it. It is debatable whether this reform was a step in the right direction. The complexity of the welfare system makes it difficult to accurately detect …show more content…
Some American’s tend to take the perceived easier path in life. Those who are content to live in poverty and receive a taxpayer’s free gift in the form of food stamps or housing allowance, will often lie, cheat and defraud the government to be certain the gift continues. The most notorious welfare fraud case occurred in Chicago in the 1970’s. A woman named Linda Taylor defrauded the government out of $150,000 annually by using eighty different names, thirty addresses and fifteen phone numbers. She collected food stamps, social security and veteran’s benefits from four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands. The fraud was so extensive that Americans coined the phrase, “welfare queen” to describe her. (The Truth Behind The