Fraud on the SNAP program to MassHealth to other public benefits has run rampant across Massachusetts, and hardly any of it is getting recovered, according to an analyst.
An expert says the state is recovering the funds at a rate of just 2.7%, good enough for just $2.69 for every $100 stolen.
This comes after a state audit flagged over $10 million in public benefits fraud in just a six-month span.
“Massachusetts is no different than any state in the country, except that they’re still in denial about the scale and scope of the problem,” Haywood Talcove, the CEO of data analytics company LexisNexis’ Risk Solutions Government Group, also a government fraud expert, told the Herald.
“They have less than 10 frontline investigators in the state, so their ability to detect fraud is as limited as their technology to find it. And if I was a taxpayer in Massachusetts, I would really want more…
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