Comment by UncleEntity

> The first option costs tax payers a bit more money.

The first option costs taxpayers significantly more than a ‘bit’.

Just look at how much it cost when they basically turned off all the checks in order to get covid relief into the hands of people who really needed it. In Arizona, after a while, they made it so you had to sit on (virtual) hold for 8-10 hours to verify your identity with a human or they would cut you off. Which worked well enough to ensure only the people who really needed it went through all the hassle. It really sucked for those people but they stopped sending billions of dollars overseas to people who just googled someone’s address.