And they say Medicaid caseworkers, often unfamiliar with many of their agency's programs, can mistakenly deny coverage to families.

The people mistakenly denied Medicare are being punished for violating work rules and typically lose cash benefits for up to six months for refusing assignments or failing to show up for work.

This is a point that Robert Bork mistakenly denied in his own hearings.

Thus, private company employees who, for example, mistakenly deny a welfare applicants petitions for benefits might find themselves in a lawsuit while public employees could not be.

William Buckland published his discovery of the Red Lady of Paviland skeleton in 1823, which was found in a cave alongside woolly mammoth bones, but he mistakenly denied that these were contemporaries.

And she testified yesterday that some city workers also mistakenly denied access to food stamp applications if people showed up for interviews without their family members.

As the health care industry braces for Federal cuts that will leave thousands of immigrants without Medicaid this fall, nursing homes have begun to mistakenly deny admission to some elderly and sickly legal immigrants who will not lose their health coverage.

At the same time, pharmacies reported that physicians often approved electronic requests by phone or fax or mistakenly denied the request and sent a new prescription.

But advocates for the homeless say investigators now mistakenly deny housing to dozens of deserving families, forcing them to shuttle from one temporary shelter to another as the city rejects their repeated applications.