Disasters and Fraud

Hello--Today I was looking up something to blog on and after looking up disasters in the news, I found a few articles on the fraud that comes with disasters. After looking at these I couldn't help think about the amount of people that claim insurance or use federal and state resources to their advantage. I remember when the hail hit us a number of years ago and people were reporting damage from hail on their vehicles from minor dinks and scratches (not caused by hail) and getting away with it.

I know in class we discussed if aid should be provided and how it should be provided. Should it be government  provided or by a third party? Should people in the Midwest help pay for hurricane damage along the coasts? All these are great questions and along with these questions one must think of how to regulate the aid. This article below shows the scandals involved with government aid in Connecticut. I linked to this article as it is well-known of the scandals that took place during lets say, hurricane Katrina, but other fraud is taking place in all levels of the government. How would you regulate aid?

http://www.ctmirror.org/story/14710/usda-says-d-snap-safeguards-worked

taken from http://i.ehow.co.uk/