I suspect the fraud rate involving food stamps is closer to 50%.
Then if you pull in mis-use, and add in duplication in feeding children through food stamps AND at school, we are on our way to a whole sh!tload of wasted tax dollars.
Minimum..
I’ve worked in ghetto stores delivering for years. In these areas I’d say unauthorized use, selling merchandise and retailer fraud would approach 20%. The real crime is those who receive the credit in excess of needs would be close to 100%.
So do I. It would be hard to find people on food stamps who do not in some way cheat. I know people who use other people’s EBT, and others who sell what they don’t need.
I agree, at least that high.
I totally agree!
No way it’s less than that either.
I am sure that 1.3% is a total baloney figure. I’m sure the fraud rate IS closer to 50% or MORE. The recipients use the EBT as a form of currency, loading up on expensive foods and then selling them for cents on the dollar, to spend on liquor, drugs, and high dollar sneakers. Time to end EBT. If they’re hungry, they can find some work for which they are qualified and earn their daily bread. I’m tired of driving through certain communities (you can guess which) and seeing able bodied looking people in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s sitting on porches with a bottle of beer or such in their hand, having a fine old time, while others toil at jobs to support them in this ridiculous lifestyle.