{
  "id": 92945,
  "title": "Welfare doesn't check if you're really you, and fraudsters have noticed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/welfare-doesnt-check-if-youre-really-you-and-fraudsters-have-noticed",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-03T15:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/6002997-require-welfare-identity-verification/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In every other part of our lives, Americans are tracked and scanned and verified. This is the age of Ring cameras, CAPTCHA and internet cookies. But suddenly, when it comes to welfare programs, we’re on horseback in the Wild West?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}