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Shocking Video Reveals Vulnerability to Fraud within Maine’s Welfare System

DHHS Worker: “If you don’t have proof of income, then you have no income”   An outside investigation into Maine’s Medicaid system reveals a shocking potential for fraud within Maine’s vast welfare bureaucracy, and it’s all on video.  Yet policy …

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PPH – “Maine welfare system data proves hard to get”

The following story was published October 17, 2010 in the Portland Press Herald. This is part of an in-depth study by the Portland Press Herald and reporter John

PPH – “Welfare: Well-meaning, well-funded, well-done?”

The following story was published October 17, 2010 in the Portland Press Herald. This is part of an in-depth study by the Portland Press Herald and

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FixWelfare.com Shows Growth in Welfare Dependency in Every Maine Town

Maine’s welfare system undermines hard work and traps parents and children in poverty. We must fix the system to free families from dependency through accountability and hard work. Click

Fix Maine Welfare

Does your town have a welfare dependency crisis?

The skyrocketing level of dependence on Maine’s welfare system is a growing crisis—in almost every Maine town. Signs of welfare dependency are right in our own backyards. The interactive

Fix Maine Welfare

New Report Examines Causes of Skyrocketing Dependence on Maine’s Welfare System

Maine's welfare system undermines hard work and traps parents and children in poverty.  We must fix the system to free families from dependency through accountability and hard work. The