Comment by jjwiseman

Welfare fraud is one of those things that people seem to think is rampant, and politicians often encourage that idea, but when measured turns out to be pretty infrequent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_fraud#In_the_United_St...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/12/20/255819681/the...

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/08/3136631/lepage-w...