Automated algorithms – not humans – are increasingly making decisions about who’s eligible for welfare benefits.
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States are increasingly turning to machine learning and algorithms to detect fraud in food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare programs – despite little evidence of actual fraud.
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Beware the airy promise of cutting red tape and saving billions. They might come for you in a way you that hurts.
The Department of Human Services approach to social security fraud prosecutions has become less punitive in recent years.
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Despite a public focus on punitive approaches to welfare fraud, the number of social security fraud prosecutions has fallen in recent years.