"And they don't know they vote."
Posted on 01/14/2017 9:48:03 PM PST by Olog-hai
Dead retailers redeemed more than $2 billion worth of food stamps, according to a new audit.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspector general reviewed billions of transactions through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. It found that thousands of stores authorized to accept food stamps were using the Social Security numbers of deceased persons.
An audit released Thursday found instances of potential fraud where the Food and Nutrition Service issued food stamps through stores that claimed to be owned by children or the dead.
“We found that 3,394 authorized SNAP retailers (retailers) used Social Security Numbers (SSN) that matched SSNs of deceased people,” the inspector general said. “Additionally, 193 retailers listed owners who were not at least 18 years of age. While FNS did have some controls to edit or verify SNAP retail owner information, these controls were not adequate to ensure owner information accuracy.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
It takes energy for dead democrats to vote... that’s why they need food...
I would expect ALL to face prison time. Don’t care what manpower it takes.
What the #### is wrong with this country? So many people willing to take, steal, rob, rape, pillage (Flash mobs) etc.
My dentist never cashed a 500 dollar check. I waited until the check was made invalid by time and when I saw him again, I told him it was never cashed (his people up front SUCK) and I gave a new one to the receptionist on the way in.
500 bucks would have been NICE!
But not only is it wrong, it’s a slippery slope to NO scruples or morals.
Might have acted differently 20 years ago.
"And they don't know they vote."
Yet we’re not supposed to believe the dead and illegals are not voting in these leftwing ran cities like Philly, and Los Angeles.
^are voting.
Food stamps are typically valid for 12 months. Taking into consideration that it takes a month or two to turn them off when you expire or die....yeah, there could be a lot of these food stamps around and being used by dead folks. I don’t see this being fixed unless you flipped everyone over to some credit-card type operation.
Course, if you go to this extreme....why not issue identification cards to everyone and require their usage when using the food stamps or credit-card. Then, by the way, you could require the same IDs to be used for voting.
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Yup.
People do have to renew yearly, which should eliminate fraud.
But these aren’t users. These are retailers ripping off the system.
In many cases they are being buried in little boxes or even burned.
Since they are already fairly life-deprived and unfairly treated by society, it seems especially perverse to try to take away their food stamps and voting rights.
Redeemed by dead people
This IS exactly the program for 'food benefits' in Calif. The money is automatically put on a credit type EBT card that can be used at any store that takes them (which is most if not all that sell food). They also issue an ID card that matches the name on the EBT card. It was all put into place here so that people wouldn't feel 'stigmatized' having to use, and be seen using food stamps. But no, they don't require any ID here to vote.
Dead people are working for the government, doling out the food stamp cards??
I don’t believe it. Dead people wouldn’t give food stamps to illegals. They didn’t do that back then. Dead people have more sense than us.
Firing squads.
“We found that 3,394 authorized SNAP retailers (retailers) used Social Security Numbers (SSN) that matched SSNs of deceased people,”
I have no doubt that massive fraud is taking place in the food stamp program. But it seems like this is a misleading headline. The people who are dead in this situation are the people who own the businesses accepting the food stamps. This could be an indicator that some type of fraud is taking place, but there are many legitimate businesses which have dead people showing as principles. I am not sure how long it took after my grandfather died before he was formally removed as a principle in our family construction business. It was not an indicator that any type of malfeasance was taking place.
Low hanging fruit...
Trump will have to attack welfare fraud as part of his jobs program. This is because savvy welfare dependents can “earn” about 60k while not working. Trump may bring jobs, but they may not pay as much as not working. As more jobs are available, welfare fraud needs to be squeezed out. What Maine did recently requiring community service for welfare should be applied nationally.
Reread the Article.
It isn’t the people who use the Food Stamps, it’s the Retailers who redeem them that are dead.
Metabolically-challenged?
Better they should have food stamps, than they should turn bad and starting eating....BRAINS!
Bra bra brains!
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