newtothegame
04-24-2013, 07:34 AM
And here I thought this was just a small percentage.....:faint:
Remember the government free phone program .....
Well, its not quite working that way it was intended.....gee surprise.....
"A federal program subsidizing phones for the poor increased from 6.8 million to 18 million recipients from 2008 -- the year it was expanded to include cell phones -- to May 2012.
And fraud and abuse from the expansion have been far more extensive than expected, to the extent that tougher enforcement of long-existing rules is projected to bring in enough money to finance the expansion of the program to provide low-income users with free Internet service, according to the Federal Communications Commission report released last week. Up to 15 percent of subscribers in the program are ineligible, the FCC found."
"Only one member per family is eligible for a cellphone, but a recent review by FCC investigators found some 270,000 families, in just 12 states, who were violating that rule"
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/02/07/government-free-phone-program-full-of-fraud-and-abuse/
"A review of five top recipients of Lifeline support conducted by the FCC for the Journal showed that 41% of their more than six million subscribers either couldn't demonstrate their eligibility or didn't respond to requests for certification. . . . ."
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2013/02/massive-41-fraud-in-government-free.html
And, it's not just people, its the providers as well.....
"The results of a Government Accountability Office fraud investigation reinforce that point of view. Only 5% of Lifeline providers have been audited so far, but 76% of those audits have already discovered fraud.
For example, the audit of just one company in Florida and Tennessee rooted out so many cases of fraud that it was determined that the company had been overpaid by $1,100,000 in just a two-month period".
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8995902.htm
Remember the government free phone program .....
Well, its not quite working that way it was intended.....gee surprise.....
"A federal program subsidizing phones for the poor increased from 6.8 million to 18 million recipients from 2008 -- the year it was expanded to include cell phones -- to May 2012.
And fraud and abuse from the expansion have been far more extensive than expected, to the extent that tougher enforcement of long-existing rules is projected to bring in enough money to finance the expansion of the program to provide low-income users with free Internet service, according to the Federal Communications Commission report released last week. Up to 15 percent of subscribers in the program are ineligible, the FCC found."
"Only one member per family is eligible for a cellphone, but a recent review by FCC investigators found some 270,000 families, in just 12 states, who were violating that rule"
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/02/07/government-free-phone-program-full-of-fraud-and-abuse/
"A review of five top recipients of Lifeline support conducted by the FCC for the Journal showed that 41% of their more than six million subscribers either couldn't demonstrate their eligibility or didn't respond to requests for certification. . . . ."
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2013/02/massive-41-fraud-in-government-free.html
And, it's not just people, its the providers as well.....
"The results of a Government Accountability Office fraud investigation reinforce that point of view. Only 5% of Lifeline providers have been audited so far, but 76% of those audits have already discovered fraud.
For example, the audit of just one company in Florida and Tennessee rooted out so many cases of fraud that it was determined that the company had been overpaid by $1,100,000 in just a two-month period".
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8995902.htm