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Welfare fraud is intentional misuse of state welfare systems by withholding information or giving false or inaccurate information. ==In the United States== The U.S. Department of Labor reported that 1.9% total UI payments for 2001 was attributable to fraud or abuse within the UI program. ''The Los Angeles Times'' reported in 2010 that twenty-four percent of new welfare applications in San Diego County contain some form of fraud which was determined to in fact include all forms of inaccuracy rather than just fraud. Welfare fraud and abuse are not as high as one may think. In Florida, from July to Oct 2011, cash welfare recipients were drug tested and only 2.6% came back positive. Which means, 97.4% of recipients were not using any kind of illegal or illicit drugs. Of the 2.6% that came back positive, most of the people came back positive for marijuana. Even the governor of Florida, Rick Scott eventually stopped pursuing people on welfare to get drug tested (Sherman). According to the U.S. Department of Labor statistics website, based on the 2012 IPIA three-Year average data report, fraud was prevalent in 2.67% of cases.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unemployment Insurance (UI) Improper Payments By State )〕 XML and XLS Unemployment Insurance data sheets released yearly available at: www.dol.gov/dol/maps/Data.htm Examples of US welfare fraud include: *A 1977 claim by the executive director of the Illinois Legislative Advisory Committee on Public Aid, that a Chicago woman named Linda Taylor used 14 aliases to obtain $150,000 for medical assistance, cash assistance and bonus cash food stamps.〔Associated Press, Mar. 8, 1977, AM cycle, Chicago (available on LEXIS)〕 She is believed to form the basis of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen", and was sentenced for two to six years.〔(Spamlaws.com Welfare fraud examples )〕 *Dorothy Woods, of the U.S., who claimed 38 non-existent children. She was sentenced to eight years' jail.〔 *Esther Johnson of California, sentenced to four years in state prison in 1979 for "collecting $240,000 for more than 60 fictitious children".〔Associated Press, June 13, 1979, AM cycle, Compton, CA (available on LEXIS)〕 *Arlene Otis of Cook County Illinois, indicted on 613 charges of "illegally receiving $150,839 in welfare funds between July 1972 and February 1978." She was sentenced to four years' jail.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Welfare fraud」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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