See also Smart Cards and Biometrics
and Client Identification
  Welfare Fraud Resources

  Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

  Workers' Compensation Fraud

  Manageable Discord - a Study of Welfare Fraud - this study is a
review of the attitudes and beliefs of individuals indulging in minor forms of welfare fraud.

  Association of Certified Fraud Investigators (Canada)

  UK Strategy on Fraud and Abuse - from the Department of Social

Security 1997-2000 Business Plan
  Investigators' Guide to Sources of  Information - GAO Office of
Special Investigations (US), April 1997. The Web version of this guide contains an incredible set of links for finding information about people and organizations on the Internet, as well as links to state and local governments and sites of general interest to investigators.

    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Office of the Inspector General. Inspection entitled: "Reforms are needed in State Income and Eligibility Verification Systems" (July, 1994 HHS, OEI--06-92-00080)
    Department of Health and Human Services:
Office of Inspector General -- Fact Sheet. Operation Restore Trust Objectives and First-Year Accomplishments. May 13, 1996. Overview: Operation Restore Trust, the special HHS initiative against fraud, waste and abuse, was launched by President Clinton in May 1995. It was designed to demonstrate new partnerships and new approaches in finding and stopping fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
    Reducing Fraud and Waste in Income Security
Programs In Canada - report by C. A. MacDonald & Associates
    Typology of Fraud and Error Control Programs - report by
C. A. MacDonald & Associates
    Early Detection and Prevention Programs: Strategies
for British Columbia - report by C. A. MacDonald & Associates
   Early Detection and Prevention Programs: State
Directory - report by C. A. MacDonald & Associates
  Effective and Efficient Service Delivery Through a Common
Client Identifier: Options and Opportunities - This report was completed for Human Resource Develoment Canada in March, 1997 by C. A. MacDonald & Associates
  Electronic Fingerprinting in San Francisco to control Welfare
Fraud - Backgrounder
  Finger Imaging: A 21st century Solution to Welfare Fraud at our fingertips. By James J. Killerlane III *
  Electronic Benefits Transfer - Use of Biometrics to Deter Fraud
in the Nationwide EBT Program - report from the General Accounting Office (US)
  Finding Fraud Indicators In Data - a common sense primer to
sorting data bases to identify potential fraud.
  Why Is Bigger Fraud Safer? - a discussion of "intent" and
"management fraud"?
  Data Matching Activities of the United States Department of
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
  Digital Imaging: Connecticut's Biometric Identification Project.
State of Connecticut Department of Social Services


  SESA Activities - Best Practices in Unemployment Insurance

(US) - This page includes a section on Overpayment Prevention (ex. New Hire Reports), Overpayment Detection (ex. crossmatches), Overpayment Recovery Investigations, Overpayment Prosecution,  and SS Numbers.
  Recognizing the Elements of Fraud - Copyright © 1995 Mark R.
Simmons, CFE CIA
  SOCIAL SECURITY: YOUR NUMBER -  SSA Publication No. 05-10002, February 1998. See also, When Someone Misuses your Number.

Medicare/Medicaid
Fraud

  Fighting Fraud & Abuse: Medicare's Program Integrity Home Page -
US Health Care Financing Administration


  Medicare: Control Over Fraud and Abuse Remains Elusive.

GAO Report T-HEHS-97-165. 19 pp. plus 1 appendix (4 pp.) June 26, 1997.
    Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector
General: AN OPEN LETTER TO HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS - This is an invitation to the nation's health care providers to join  in a national campaign to eliminate fraud and abuse from Medicare, Medicaid and the more than 200 other Federal health and human development programs.
  Supplemental Security Income: Timely Data Could Prevent
Millions in Overpayments to Nursing Home Residents. GAO Report HEHS-97-62. 19 pp. plus 5 appendices (14 pp.) June 3, 1997.
  What is Medicaid Provider Fraud? - Wisconsin State Fraud Unit

  Great Moments in Medical Fraud - A listing of examples of

Medicaid Fraud
  Medicare Professional/Technical Fraud and Abuse Information -

  Twelve Ways to Spot Workers' Compensation Fraud - South
Australia Workcover Corporation
  Workers' Compensation Fraud - United States Postal Inspection
Service