End of Project 100% in county marks new era in assisting needy
Print When she found out last month that the San Diego County Board of Supervisors had voted to end Project 100%, a program that for nearly a quarter century had supposedly been weeding out fraudulent applications for public benefits, Raynita Johnson had an instant reaction: She wept. Twenty years ago, as a single mother of four fleeing an abusive domestic relationship, Johnson was subjected to the main feature of Project 100%: an unannounced home search by a law enforcement investigator, looking for evidence of an attempt to defraud the county welfare, food stamp and other benefit programs. ...