Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Just reading the below news makes my blood boil. These criminals should be imprisoned.
WELFARE aid totalling RM418,145 was paid out in cash to 184 people up to December 2008 in Perlis, but there are no records of the recipients with the National Registration Department, revealed the Auditor-General’s Report.
The report found that the Perlis Welfare Department also discovered that 26 recipients who died between 2007 and 2008 continued to receive cash aid totalling RM14,520.
“In one case, the recipient continued to receive cash aid 20 years after he passed away,” said the report.
The report also discovered another startling case where a department employee created 20 fictitious identities and paid out RM16,140 to them until December last year.
The report said that the NRD confirmed that the recipients did not exist.
“The Perlis Welfare Department lodged a police report against an assistant community development officer in February over the alleged misappropriation of funds,” said the report, adding that police were still investigating.
“This case happened due to lack of monitoring and supervision from high-ranking officers. The incident could have been avoided if duty rotation among staff members was practised,” said the report.
The department explained that the cash aid was paid to representatives of the recipients. In one case, a representative was found to be receiving two sets of cash aid, one in Titi Tinggi and the other in Beseri, it said.
Such cases took place because there was no monitoring or checks and change of duty among staff, it said.
“The auditors are of the view that cash aid should not be given to a representative or a proxy. The recipient never gave consent for such representation,” the report said.
