fraud & abuse
Как проверяют данные обращающихся за субсидиями в Обамакере:
Undercover investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) spent some time this year attempting to see if it would be possible to get subsidies using false application information. They set up fake names and Social Security numbers that aren’t real, then claimed citizenship or legal residence, according to the AP, which obtained an early copy of the GAO report. They submitted applications with income amounts that should have been too high to get subsidies. In other words, they fed the system blatantly fraudulent information that should have been swiftly rejected.
But the majority of their attempts were successful anyway (the AP says 11 of 18; The New York Times reports 11 of 12). Indeed, the agency is still paying its share of the premiums on those accounts, because the Obama administration, which certified the validity of its subsidy verification system, just a few months ago, hasn’t caught on to the fraudulent accounts yet.
The GAO did not rely on complex schemes or trickery. Instead, they called, or went online, and worked through the application process. Of the six telephone attempts that the agency attempted, five went through. The lone rejection occurred when the GAO investigator refused to supply a Social Security number at all. Several attempts that were initially blocked online were later approved over the phone.
TLDR: Никак.
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Undercover investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) spent some time this year attempting to see if it would be possible to get subsidies using false application information. They set up fake names and Social Security numbers that aren’t real, then claimed citizenship or legal residence, according to the AP, which obtained an early copy of the GAO report. They submitted applications with income amounts that should have been too high to get subsidies. In other words, they fed the system blatantly fraudulent information that should have been swiftly rejected.
But the majority of their attempts were successful anyway (the AP says 11 of 18; The New York Times reports 11 of 12). Indeed, the agency is still paying its share of the premiums on those accounts, because the Obama administration, which certified the validity of its subsidy verification system, just a few months ago, hasn’t caught on to the fraudulent accounts yet.
The GAO did not rely on complex schemes or trickery. Instead, they called, or went online, and worked through the application process. Of the six telephone attempts that the agency attempted, five went through. The lone rejection occurred when the GAO investigator refused to supply a Social Security number at all. Several attempts that were initially blocked online were later approved over the phone.
TLDR: Никак.
This entry was originally posted at http://stas.dreamwidth.org/945230.html.