The MassGOP is ripping welfare fraud after investigators uncovered $2.3 million in abuse “in the past quarter alone.”
No phrase if that features all of the EBT {dollars} spent in Hawaii, because the Herald reported earlier this month.
“The Democratic supermajority has repeatedly proven they are incapable of managing taxpayer dollars. When they overspend and mismanage funds, they simply ask for more,” stated MassGOP Chair Amy Carnevale.
We did some follow-up digging since our two-part collection on EBT money touring all around the U.S. The state Division of Transitional Help (DTA) reported Saturday the company has “closed 205 accounts (EBT cards) this year due to policy violations.”
DTA Commissioner Jeff McCue defined in an announcement to the Herald that welfare recipients are allowed to journey outdoors of Massachusetts and spend their EBT {dollars} to assist, however just for “reasons such as visiting a sick family member or attending a funeral, or they live near the state border and cross into another state.”
If not, they’ll have their EBT — previously Meals Stamp playing cards — yanked.
Carnevale stated the oversight is missing.
“The lack of accountability in handling taxpayer dollars is egregious,” she stated, including $2.3 million in “taxpayer money fraudulently spent in just one quarter is unacceptable.”
This all comes as state Sen. Ryan Fattman and GOP colleagues Bruce Tarr, Peter Durant and Patrick O’Connor are in search of a probe by the Senate Committee on Submit Audit and Oversight of EBT out-of-state spending.
We’ll see the place this all goes.
Style of the Himalayas
The UN got here to West Roxbury Friday evening — no less than one dignitary did.
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli dined on the Himalayan Bistro on Centre Avenue together with his spouse, Radhika Shakya, and about 30-plus visitors, the restaurant advised the Herald.
Only a day earlier than he spoke to the UN Basic Meeting about “a looming climate catastrophe, resurgent geopolitical rivalries, and escalating military expenditures, which he said are driving the world toward instability.”
In line with the UN’s reporting, Oli added: “None of the global challenges we face today have been imposed by aliens — these are of our own making,” he stated, including that by way of understanding, belief, and cooperation, “we can overcome.”
He then invoked the philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam from the traditional textual content Maha Upanishad, the idea that “the world is one family,” the UN Information added.
The Menino gambit
Former Mayor Tom Menino, a savvy politician, was not shy.
As we’ve reported, Mayor Michelle Wu’s tax-rate petition mirrors a tiered shift town applied 20 years in the past beneath Menino. In her preliminary plan, a 200% industrial tax enhance would ease every year till settling in 12 months 5 into the 175% most shift allowed by state regulation. She has since agreed to signal an govt order that will impose a shift of not more than 190%.
That plan is enjoying out on Beacon Hill the place the state Senate has not backed Wu, thus far, however the Home did.
Menino primed the pump in 2004 for the same transfer when he despatched out estimated tax payments citywide that confirmed each his plan and what would occur if the state Legislature didn’t move his home-rule petition.
Would Wu do the identical? Some are saying she might use that political chess transfer as quickly as subsequent month. An October shock within the mail.
We’ll preserve our ears to the bottom.
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