Means-tested government assistance in the United States requires
recipients to meet certain criteria and continue to maintain their
eligibility so that benefits are paid to the "truly needy." Welfare
is regarded with such suspicion in this country that considerable
resources are spent policing the boundaries of eligibility, which
are delineated by an often confusing and baroque set of rules and
regulations. Even minor infractions of the many rules can cause
people to be dropped from these programs, and possibly face
criminal prosecution. In this book, Spencer Headworth offers the
first study of the structure of fraud control in the welfare system
by examining the relations between different levels of governmental
agencies, from federal to local, and their enforcement practices.
Policing Welfare shows how the enforcement regime of welfare has
been constructed to further stigmatize those already living in
poverty and deepens disparities of class, race, and gender in our
society.
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