Claim: "The average rate of fraud" in the Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps programs "is 20 to 25 percent."
Fact-check: On average, 20 to 25 cents of every $1 spent on four government assistance programs is lost to fraud, Sen. Ron Johnson says
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Tom Kertscher
Date published: 2014-01-20T00:00:00