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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. Critics had long said the program was humiliating and invasive, and instead of catching fraud actually was aimed at deterring needy individuals and families from seeking benefits.

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