barryr
07-02-2010, 09:12 AM
And the key part in bold that I had just mentioned in another thread of wasted tax dollars. No oversight in yet another government program.
Feds wasted millions in utilities program for poor
By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press Writer – Thu Jul 1, 12:52 pm ET
MIAMI – A federal program designed to help impoverished families heat and cool their homes wasted more than $100 million paying the electric bills of thousands of applicants who were dead, in prison or living in million-dollar mansions, according to a government investigation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spent $5 billion through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program in 2009, doling out money to states with little oversight of the program. Some states don't verify applicants' identifies or income. For example, the program helped pay the electric bill of a woman who lives in a $2 million home in a wealthy Chicago suburb and drives a Mercedes, according to the yet-to-be released report obtained by The Associated Press.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100701/ap_on_re_us/us_electric_bill_fraud
Feds wasted millions in utilities program for poor
By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press Writer – Thu Jul 1, 12:52 pm ET
MIAMI – A federal program designed to help impoverished families heat and cool their homes wasted more than $100 million paying the electric bills of thousands of applicants who were dead, in prison or living in million-dollar mansions, according to a government investigation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spent $5 billion through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program in 2009, doling out money to states with little oversight of the program. Some states don't verify applicants' identifies or income. For example, the program helped pay the electric bill of a woman who lives in a $2 million home in a wealthy Chicago suburb and drives a Mercedes, according to the yet-to-be released report obtained by The Associated Press.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100701/ap_on_re_us/us_electric_bill_fraud