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Mar 21, 2012

Taking Out The Meat Cleaver

From the Associated Press:
[Greek] Health Ministry officials say nearly one-in-six disability allowances will be canceled at the end of the month after discovering thousands of payments were based on false claims — including of drivers registered as being legally blind and bogus cases of leprosy.

3 comments:

  1. Maybe the US will get serious about combatting fraudulent pays and we will see a large group of beneficiaries taken off the disability rolls.

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  2. @ anon 12:29...

    long overdue, but not likely

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  3. Well if the government says it's true then it must be true. I mean, what incentive does the Greek gov't have to forcibly cut disability payments?

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