criminals/inmates receive stimulas check ??? wth is wrong here ??

[Silencer]

Stimulus checks went to inmates


WASHINGTON â€" The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.

About 52 million Social Security recipients, railroad retirees and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were eligible for the one-time checks. Prison inmates are generally ineligible for federal benefits; however, 2,200 of them were eligible because they weren’t incarcerated in any one of the three months before the recovery package was enacted.

The other 1,700 checks? That was a mistake, said Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration.

Checks were sent to those inmates because records didn’t accurately show they were in prison, Lassiter said. He said most of those checks were returned by the prisons.


â€" Herald wire services


So how bout keeping their damn hand-out for rent or other things ???     

[JohnP]

The same government  that passed out these check also has run Social Security and Medicare to the brink of disaster.  Is still funding, with tax dollars,  AMTRAK and the Postal Service many years after they said they would not.  Now they want to run our entire health care system - go figure.