SCDSS No. 2 Resigning

Isabel Blanco, the bureaucrat at the center of South Carolina’s 2012 food stamp scandal, is resigning her post with the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) effective April 15.
Blanco’s resignation comes less than a week after FITS returned from a trip to Washington, D.C. during which we alerted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to [...]

The Wire: 12/12/2012

TIPS, COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM FITS READERS
Welcome to “The Wire!”  We’re nine days away from the Mayan apocalypse, thirteen days away from Christmas and nineteen days away from the “fiscal cliff.”
It’s a busy week in South Carolina politics.  State lawmakers pre-filed their first pieces of legislation this week in advance of the 2013 session of [...]

SCDSS Audit: It’s About Time

MORE CABINET PROBLEMS FOR NIKKI HALEY
Months after this website began exposing a pattern of data manipulation at the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS), state lawmakers FINALLY got  around to requesting an audit of the agency.
According to The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier, a group of lawmakers has asked the S.C. Legislative Audit Council (SCLAC) [...]

SCDSS Deputy Director Suspended

ANOTHER SCANDAL FOR NIKKI HALEY’S CABINET
Embattled S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) deputy director Isabel Blanco has been suspended from her position with the agency after an “altercation” with a subordinate.
According to our sources at the agency, Blanco was suspended last Wednesday – although length of the suspension (and whether she’s still collecting her $123,600 [...]

Meet Isabel Blanco

SECOND-IN-COMMAND AT SC WELFARE AGENCY HAS SOME SERIOUS ISSUES
Not long ago, our founding editor attended a meeting hosted by South Carolina’s Department of Social Services (which has been receiving glowing coverage from the state’s mainstream media despite clear evidence of manipulated data).
Anyway, leading this assembly was Isabel Blanco – deputy director of the Palmetto State’s welfare [...]