U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) said he was extremely disturbed by a media report that an Obamacare contractor with a billion dollar taxpayer contract is paying employees, and continuing to hire more workers, to perform work that does not exist at a facility in his congressional district.

Quoting a whistleblower from inside the Serco plant in Wentzville, St. Louis television station KMOV-TV is reporting that data entry employees at the facility are beig paid to do nothing because of a lack of paper applications. The processing center is currently operating under a $1.2 billion national contract.  According to KMOV, the contractor is paid based on the number of workers hired, not the number of applications processed.

The Washington Post previously reported that the British government launched an investigation into the firm’s parent company, Serco Group, for allegedly overbilling the government “tens of millions of pounds” under a contract to monitor offenders on parole or out on bail.

“The implementation of Obamacare has been an absolute disaster from the very beginning and I am extremely disturbed by these new allegations about taxpayer money being wasted on non-existent applications,” Luetkemeyer said. “I applaud KMOV’s work, and the courage of the whistleblower in Wentzville, to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the president’s health care law, the cost of which continues to skyrocket.”

The KMOV story can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/lsghhzd