What is it and Why should I join?
The United Council on Welfare Fraud (UCOWF) is an organization of investigators, administrators, prosecutors, eligibility workers, and claims collectors from local, state, and federal agencies from the United States and Canada who have combined their efforts to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in the social service programs. The focus of UCOWF is the detection, elimination and prosecution of those who fraudulently obtain or attempt to obtain government benefits.
Membership is available to anyone who is directly involved in or responsible for the prevention, detection, elimination and prosecution of welfare fraud or the identification and recovery of benefit payments made as a result of fraud or an intentional program violation.

There are four classes of eligibility for memberships: Regular membership is available to any person directly or indirectly involved in the prevention, detection, and prosecution of welfare fraud; Lifetime Membership is by recognition of past purchase of lifetime membership in the Council and/or the National Welfare Fraud Association, by election as President of the Council and/or NWFA, by Honorarium, or by special recognition of the Board of Directors; Affiliate Membership is available to groups of members of state or provincial welfare fraud control organizations, as approved by the Board of Directors; Student Membership includes any student active in the formal study of social work or criminal justice, or other related program. Student members shall not have voting rights at membership meetings or caucuses, and shall not be eligible for election to the Board of Directors.