One winter while reading water meters a full timer there tried to put his girlfriend and her child on his medical insurance.  But since he wasn’t married to her and the child wasn’t his the town declined his request.  Of course he took it very personal and bitched up a storm; his sense of entitlement was high.  Well a couple of years later the person responsible for enrolling dependents retired.  So he of course applied to put his girlfriend/child on the insurance again and the new person who put it through did not yet fully understand the rules of the insurance.  Well when the insurance company asked for documentation that these individuals were in fact legitimate dependents, there was of course none.  When his boss found out, they knew the employee had tried this in the past and had been clearly told no and yet went ahead and did it again.  So they had him arrested for fraud and fired.  He should have just married her.  So he lost his job, but got a new place to live for 3 to 5 years.  It’s one thing when you can claim ignorance, it’s entirely different when you purposely commit the fraud, thinking that no one will notice, because you’re convinced you’re the only one that’s right, even after the jail door slams behind you.

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