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:

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

@ anon 12:29...

long overdue, but not likely

Nobbins said...

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?