Thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1154789/Polygamy-UK-This-special-Mail-investigation-reveals-thousands-men-milking-benefits-support-wives.html

Reid said, other criminal conduct occurs:  ”welfare fraud, tax evasion, massive corruption and strong-arm tactics to maintain what they think is the status quo.” 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/24/polygamy.hearing/index.html?eref=rss_latest

What happens is a man marries one wife, she’s his legal wife, then he marries ten other wives in the church, and all the other wives are, by law, single women, so they have all these children with him, and they all get welfare.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/earlyshow/main4005519.shtml

Many of the celestial wives register with the state as single mothers and draw welfare for their huge families.  In one decade Tom Green and his dependents received more than $647,000 in public assistance.

http://www.childrenshealthcare.org/polygamous.htm

Canadian Muslim leaders admitted that hundreds of Muslim men in Ontario are now claiming welfare and social benefits for their multiple wives. This is welfare fraud.

http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=4584f9bc-04ce-4608-b740-72b422deef14

American taxpayers have unwittingly helped finance a polygamist sect that is now the focus of a massive child abuse investigation in West Texas, with a business tied to the group receiving a nearly $1 million loan from the federal government and $1.2 million in military contracts.

http://lifewithoutfaith.com/index.php?/archives/59-The-American-Government-Funds-The-Polygamist-FLDS-Sect!.html

Arizona faces a “Waco-level” threat from Mormon fundamentalists.
By John Dougherty
Published on October 03, 2002

Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano’s office is covering up information documenting extensive and ongoing criminal activity including rape, incest, assault, kidnapping, forced marriages of underage girls, weapons violations and welfare fraud that is rampant in the remote polygamous community of Colorado City, state records obtained by New Times reveal.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-10-03/news/cover-up-arizona-attorney-general-internal-memo/

Arizona polygamist leaders are using public funds to support religious schools and line their own pockets. The state’s done nothing to stop them.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2003-04-10/news/polygamy-in-arizona-the-wages-of-sin/

A bill before the Legislature would allow the state to begin reforming a society that steals public money and abuses underage girls
Commentary
By John Dougherty
Published on April 07, 2005
The Arizona Legislature has the rare opportunity this session to strike a powerful blow to the heart of the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist cult that has dominated life in the isolated communities north of the Grand Canyon for more than 70 years.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-04-07/news/derail-polygamy-s-money-train/

Polygamy and the Degradation of Women

If a husband who practices polygamy is ready to be rid of a dissatisfied wife, he might agree to let her go, but not with her children. Hell and losing her children is the choice these women of polygamy face.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/783225/how_polygamy_impacts_the_welfare_system_pg2.html?cat=9