ms. faulkner is inspector general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. prior to becoming inspector general ms. faulkner was a law partner at the philadelphia office of ballard llp. she is has had a lengthy career, not that lengthy, you are too young, and public service as an assistant u.s. attorneyattorney, deputy attorney general of pennsylvania, and philadelphia public defender. that is a lot to pack in a short time. if if you would all rise pursuant to our committee rules all witnesses are to be sworn. please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect all witnesses answered in the affirmative. this committee historically tends to have a soft gavel as i informed the witnesses ahead of time. we have a vote on a district last working day. i know my people. they will not return so in order to not have you wait an hour were relatively small period afterwards if we have not concluded by the time of the vote, we will end at that

ms. faulkner is inspector general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. prior to being inspector general, she was a law partner to philadelphia office of ballardspaul, llc, and not that lengthy, you're too young, and attorney general of pennsylvania and philadelphia public defender. that is a lot to pack in a short time. if you would all rise, pursuant to the committee rules, all witnesses are to be sworn. please raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? i do. let the record reflect -- please be seated, all answered in the affirmative. this committee historically tends to have a soft gavel, as i informed the witnesses ahead of time, we have a vote on a district work period last working day. i know my people. they will not return. in order to not have you wait an hour for a relatively small period afterwards, if we've not concluded by the time of the vote, we will end at that point. as a result, i will hold everyone on your side very close to the five minu

ms. faulkner is inspector general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. prior to becoming inspktector general, law partner at philadelphia office of ballard, spall, llp. she had a lengthy career, not that lengthy, you are too young in public service as assistant u.s. attorney, deputy attorney general of pennsylvania, and philadelphia public defender. that is a lot to pack in a short time. if you would all rise pursuant to our committee rules, all witnesses are to be sworn. please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> i do. >> i do. let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. this committee historically tends to have a soft gavel as i informed the witnesses ahead of time. we have a vote on a district work period last working day. i know my people, they will not return. so in order to not have you wait an hour for a relatively small period afterwards. if we have not concluded by the

ms. faulkner is inspector general of the commonwealth of pennsylvania.or to becoming inspector general ms. faulkner was a law partner at the philadelphia office of ballard llp. she is has had a lengthy career, not that lengthy, you are too young, and public service as an assistant u.s. attorneyattorney, deputy attorney general of pennsylvania, and philadelphia public defender. that is a lot to pack in a short time. if if you would all rise pursuant to our committee rules all witnesses are to be sworn. please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect all witnesses answered in the affirmative. this committee historically tends to have a soft gavel as i informed the witnesses ahead of time. we have a vote on a district last working day. i know my people. they will not return so in order to not have you wait an hour were relatively small period afterwards if we have not concluded by the time of the vote, we will end at that poi

ms. faulkner, i think of something to say on those questions, to. >> i wanted to talk about what my s.n.a.p. trafficking program has done in the fiscal year 2010-2011. we conducted 584, just s.n.a.p. traffic investigations. we scheduled 150 administrators with its recitation back of over $250,000. we disqualified 77 recipient of s.n.a.p. benefits. which really gave us a cost savings of close to $500,000. and that's with the limited staff we have. so in pennsylvania as i stated earlier, we are seeing more fraud. we are. and that we have little staff, hope to get a little more. that was our 2010-2011 a loan. we don't expect it to go down. >> i know ms. fong has previously said that you don't necessarily concur with those figures independently at this point. and i would only ask since the secretary said that they're going to redo them again, i would hope that we could expect them to be mutually agree to biometrics that then you could essentially concur with. >> yes, we have some work planned for this year to take a look at methodology and those numbers. >> thank you. we not go to the gentleman