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access to the fingerprint records of welfare recipients.
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# "You wouldn't want any criminals getting welfare."
So, we'll fingerprint welfare recipients like criminals? Instead of asking
for utility bills and leases in their name to prove residency?
Other states are following suit...Pennsylvania, Florida...
* "A Test for Welfare Fraud Is Expanded to Families"
* By Esther B. Fein, The New York Times, 11/11/95
*
* New York State is sharply increasing the number of people it electronically
* fingerprints to detect welfare fraud past the 285,000 single adult program
* to more than 453,000 recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
*
* Of the 220,193 people electronically fingerprinted as of Nov. 9, only 146
* were found to have registered for duplicate benefits. New York State
* officials said they didn't expect to find many cases of fraud. [What???]
* "We are just using a new tool to help comply with Federal regulations
* prohibiting us from giving duplicate benefits."
*
* The program is costing the state $10 million a year.
One big evil eye, done with biometrics...control
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