How much would it cost our government to?

Question

launch an agency who regularly, but randomly, checks up on welfare recipitants to see what they are doing all day?

Would the money saved, due to revocation of fraudsters, be more than it cost the agency?

What about private contractors doing it?

I'll retype the following again, more slowly this time, for the slow readers who may have missed it the first time:

WHAT ABOUT PRIVATE CONTRACTORS DOING IT?

Answer 1

it might be easier to make them all do some sort of mininal work for their checks, those that didnt show didnt get paid, those that did, would soon see the light and find a job

Answer 2

Myth: Private contractors save the government money when compared to civil servants.

Actually, studies have shown that private contractors cost the government more than civil servants, in many cases.

As for a program to check up on welfare fraud, each person employed to go into dangerous neighborhoods to monitor the activities of welfare recipients likely would cost the government 2-3 times more than any welfare cheat they are assigned to monitor, and that's not including benefits.

How much each welfare cheat costs the government is a statistic which I can't put my hands on. Same thing with how much welfare fraud costs the nation annually. But it's safe to say that creating new bureaucracy, whether civil servants or private contractors, costs more.

Answer 3

Instead of checking on the minimal amounts that would be taken by the odd welfare recipient. Why not have a group that truly investigates the needless spending of the Government agencies that buy SUV's galore and have exhorbitant expense accounts and sit down to a closed door meeting and vote themselves 25% raises every damned year or so. They work a couple of hours a day and only for half the year and get payrolls like $150,000.00 a year to sit down and rip us off, and then retire after a couple of terms with an enormous retirement fund. I would rather spend some cash on them than looking for an odd person getting to steal what these ******* are spending on a luncheon at the bar down from the government office and not to mention $1.00 haircuts and free wine with lunches and dinners too, also the kickbacks from illegal contract signing and on and on and on.

Answer 4

Most state, county, and city welfare programs have a fraud unit that investigates recipients for compliance.
As far as private contractors, some investigative units have contract workers conducting investigations.

Answer 5

I'd also like an agency that regularly but randomly checks up on congressmen, the president and various other government officials to see what they are doing all day(if anything).

Answer 6

~I wouldn't call unemployed people "lazy." They have to prove every place they applied at and check in with the agency so much that it's harder to do that than actually work!
I'm against helping the immigrants though. Yes, there are people that already do that job.
For the asker, let me type this real slow so YOU can understand.. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.~

Answer 7

Contractors are typically 150% more per hour. So using contractors would be more expensive.

Answer 8

There already is an agency that does this. It's called Health & Human Services.

What is it about republicans and assorted other rightwingers calling for bigger government these days?

Answer 9

Just make it a once in your life, temporary assistance program then expect people to get back to work or have their family support them. People need to be held accountable. There are so many jobs available that millions of illegal immigrants can live in the USA just fine. I don't take the excuse of, "I can't find work."

Answer 10

That is a clever idea. I would take it one further and just eliminate welfare all together. Why do we even have it? People need to support themselves.

It comes from our taxes, and I don't want to pay lazy or illegal people to sit around all day while I'm working to support myself and my family.