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To Tackle Fraud, States Must Strengthen EBT Card Integrity

To Tackle Fraud, States Must Strengthen EBT Card Integrity

  • Paige Terryberry
States should strengthen EBT card integrity by limiting replacement cards, adding photos to cards, enabling a freeze or lock feature, and restricting out-of-state and online transactions by default.
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Pipeline to Fraud: How Obama-Era Loopholes Undermine Medicaid Program Integrity

Pipeline to Fraud: How Obama-Era Loopholes Undermine Medicaid Program Integrity

  • Jonathan Bain
Congress must close both pipelines and require states to verify eligibility for every Medicaid applicant.
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Without Delay: Ensuring the Successful Implementation of Medicaid Work Requirements

Without Delay: Ensuring the Successful Implementation of Medicaid Work Requirements

  • Jonathan Bain
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should not approve any “good faith” waivers that delay the implementation of Medicaid work requirements.
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Trump’s welfare reforms are a major victory; bureaucrats could still wreck them

Trump’s welfare reforms are a major victory; bureaucrats could still wreck them

  • Tarren Bragdon
On the 30th anniversary of the 1996 welfare reforms, Trump's welfare overhaul is historic progress — but bureaucrats could still wreck it.
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30 Years of Welfare Reform

30 Years of Welfare Reform

Thirty years ago, Republicans and Democrats both agreed that for able-bodied adults, welfare should be temporary and tied to work. 1996’s welfare reform was historic, and it changed millions of…
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Wyoming Voters Support Efforts to Battle Welfare Fraud and Promote Work in the Cowboy State

Likely Wyoming voters back publishing welfare fraud findings, securing food stamp benefits, expanding career paths, and cutting state spending.

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Ohio Voters Back Work Requirements and Welfare Program Integrity, Support Spans Party Lines

Likely Ohio voters support work requirements, data-driven eligibility checks, and stopping welfare fraud before payments go out.

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