Kyle Bowler
Abstract

Research question- Welfare Fraud: What can we do to prevent it?

Welfare is a public assistance program designed to help people who are not able to support themselves fully. The purpose of public assistance is to help meet a sufficient standard of living by providing a minimum amount of economic security to those people whose income is not great enough. However, one of the most controversial issues in society today has become welfare fraud or abuse. Complaints about fraudulent misuse of benefits continue to increase. The most common reason is because the welfare system is easy for people to take advantage of.  Fraud is an all too common occurrence, and people will try many ways to get free money. I believe there are those that need welfare to get them through a hard time and those that abuse the system. I think we are making it to easy to live off the system, and it needs to change.