This will come as no surprise, but some Food Stamp recipients "buy" food with the stamps and then sell it for cash to their family and neighbors. The fraud is rampant.
there’s a store where my wife comes from in Quincy MA.
The store is owned by a pakistani family and has been for years.
Down the road (5 to 10 min walk) is the projects by the ocean.Yes projects which are houses not apartments and they have their own beach and ocean(check them outhttp://www.quincypublicschools.com/images/maps/snugharbor.gif: )
check the local school and their programs for the projects families.http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.quincypublicschools.com/images/maps/snugharbor.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.quincypublicschools.com/schools/snugharbor/main_page.shtml&usg=__2CigU3DQDgIfV3fF_SbWR3CqDjQ=&h=400&w=400&sz=12&hl=en&start=17&um=1&tbnid=gKdcvY98zB2eeM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsnug%2Bharbor%2Bma%2Bprojects%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1
family day trips, free food, baby sitting etc
Anyway go to that shop and you will see folks using their food stamps to buy cigs, beer.
Here is how they do it.
They get the cigs but the pakistani bills something which is the same price or similar price.
That way the Govt doesn’t know what is going on.
Try calling about it to the Govt and you get no where as the woman on the other end couldn’t be bothered looking into it or approves of it.
check these projects out near where my wife comes from and can you see the beach, nice space between the houses. get baby sitting and everything you could ever need and many who live there don’t even speak English they’re all Asians and Arabs/middle easterners
click on aerial view and then zoom in.
makes me sick, some even have boats for crying out loud, granted not big ones but still it’s a boat to go out on
