Editing Project Match

== Project Match ==
Project Match was a 1979 attempt by the Federal government to find welfare fraud by cross-checking the names in computers with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare against lists of current Federal employees. A similar project, Project Integrity, would examine similar lists of names to look for Medicaid fraud.

=== Relevance ===
In [[Radio1979|1979]], Reagan did one of his [[Reagan_Radio_Commentaries|Radio Commentaries]] about the 1977 announcement of Project Match and a small-scale experiment (cross-referencing HEW employees in the D.C. area against the welfare recipients) that was run before doing a full check and the results of that experiment. This broadcast is labeled with production number [[79-10-B6]].

Reagan believed the experiment to be a bust, costing more than it was worth. 15 people were found and none served any kind of jail time. Only $2000 was recovered. One woman had her career destroyed.