The Government Accounting Office (GAO), which monitors how Washington manages tax money, has uncovered yet another expensive boondoggle amid the well-intentioned federal giveaway of billions of dollars, this time in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, serving 8.3 million U.S. households.
The program is supposed to provide low-income households “energy assistance,” another way of saying government-subsidized air conditioning and heating. But the feds paid $116 million in subsidies to applicants who used 11,000 dead people’s Social Security numbers, to 725 imprisoned convicts and to 1,100 well-paid — and ineligible — government workers.