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David Schweikert: There may be a cheaper, better, more elegant way to get these benefits out the door and at the same time deal with the…

On the recordApril 25, 2017
There may be a cheaper, better, more elegant way to get these benefits out the door and at the same time deal with the amount of fraud that is still built into the system.
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona

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Schweikert discusses potential improvements in benefit distribution and fraud management.

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