Using Computers to Combat Welfare Fraud: The Operation and Effectiveness of Wage Matching

by David Greenberg, Douglas Wolf, Jennifer Pfiester

In this study, David Greenberg and Douglas Wolf describe, systematize, and evaluate the cost effectiveness of computerized anti-fraud procedures in public welfare programs. In particular, they discusss the Congressionally mandated wage matching systems used to check for under-reported or non-reported incomes of participants in the AFDC and Food Stamp Programs. The authors describe the implementation of such systems in several local areas around the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313248702
• ISBN13: 9780313248702
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"