Comment by WhyIsItAlwaysHN

Some groups will be more disadvantaged than others by being investigated. For example for welfare, I expect fraudsters to have more money to support themselves or less people to support (unless the criteria for welfare is something unexpected). So I'd say that there also needs to be more protections than just providing money.

Nevertheless the idea of giving money is still good imo, because it also incentivizes the fraud detection becoming more efficient, since mistakes now cost more. Unfortunately I have a feeling people might game that to get more money by triggering false investigations.