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Last month, two defendants on welfare fraud charges were given a suspended jail sentence, ordered to pay court costs, restitution and a fine, and disqualified from receiving food stamp benefits for six months.
The case involved just two of the nine indictments handed down earlier by a Rappahannock County grand jury for welfare fraud arising out of illegal receipt of food stamps.
A new checking requirement ordered into effect by the state as of January 1, 1983, led to the discovery of most of the fraud instances, according to Janice Moffett, food stamp eligibility worker with the Rappahannock Social services Department. By law, all members of a food stamp household — including even small children and infants — must now have their social security numbers processed through the Virginia Employment Commission’s
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