> Only seven people were charged with fraud in self-directed personal care services in Arkansas in 2020, out of a workforce of more than 4,500, according to dat

> Only seven people were charged with fraud in self-directed personal care services in Arkansas in 2020, out of a workforce of more than 4,500, according to data collected by Applied Self-Direction, a Boston-based consultancy. The state secured three convictions, recovering $1,930 total – $643 per case. The EVV system has cost the state $5.7m so far. How has this gone so far?! I am profoundly disappointed that there are so many people happy to spend 5,700,000 dollars to "avoid" losses of $1,930, while simultaneously putting thousands of the most compassionate people under needless stress. Everyone involved in drafting and approving this atrocity needs to be put in remedial math classes, and never allowed near a lever of power again.