Pope: larger welfare budgets create more opportunities for fraud; program structure matters
Chris Pope told attendees that bigger entitlement budgets and multi-layered administration increase opportunities for fraud, pointing to Medicaid and home- and community-based services as examples where multiple intermediaries create enforcement gaps.
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An audience member asked whether greater generosity increases fraud in welfare systems. Chris Pope responded that larger spending inevitably creates more opportunities and that program structure—multiple stages between financer and provider—can make fraud harder to detect and prevent.
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