State reveals welfare-abuse hotline

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Wisconsin now has a hotline where people can report people using fraud to get state health and nutrition aid. The new Inspector General’s office in the Health Services Department created the hotline, and Governor Scott Walker unveiled it the morning of Thursday, Dec. 1.

Walker said the hotline will ensure that people get the assistance they need while cutting down on fraud, waste, and abuses in the system. The Inspector General’s office was created last month to improve the coordination of fraud-fighting efforts in the state health agency – and to follow the recommendations from Walker’s commission on the subject.

Inspector General Alan White says he wants to hear from those with information about public assistance abuse at the toll-free number: 1-877-865-3432.

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