According to the US census bureau, in 2007, the state of California had 3576 full time equivalent employees in "Public Welfare" and 17417 employees in "Social Insurance Administration." In the same year, it had 1,245,362 SSI recipients. If every one of those employees stopped whatever they were doing and went out and spied on SSI recipients full time, each employee would have to spy on 60 recipients. In the mean time, there would be no one to issue checks, take applications, screen new applicants, resolve problems, audit the books, etc.