More Oversight Won't Fix Minnesota's Fraud Problem

Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman

The lesson from Minnesota’s fraud scandal is that no amount of red tape can fix a system built on misaligned incentives.

Last month, a House Judiciary Committee hearing discussed the more than $9 billion in fraudulent spending across 14 of Minnesota’s state-administered, federally funded welfare programs over the past decade. Officials and experts including Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette of the Project on Government Oversight correctly noted that fraud on this scale stems from “deep...