welfare fraud investigations take advantage of close relationships and social media to turn the personal into the penal /

US state governments maintain dedicated units aimed at detecting fraud in welfare services like SNAP. Spencer Headworth writes that these units solicit voluntary informants and co-opt neutral and positive social ties between people to find out approximately potential fraud. He argues that taking advantage of social ties in this way can undermine or even slay the very relationships between vulnerable […]

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