This kind of stuff has been going on forever.
Even when one had to show up in person to get their funds,
No sooner than they have them in hand. They would trade barter sell cheap. The food they brought for booze drugs.
The people running the program didn’t/don’t care not their money.
Yet another government dependency tool to keep people enslaved and voting D. The fraud has become a feature instead of a sign of failure. Marxists call it compassion by pointing to how many people are “helped”.
This is a great argument to swap this system out for boxes of food - bread, peanut butter, oatmeal, margarine, apples and a gallon of milk.
Being hungry when I was in my early 20’s pushed me into doing greater things with my life. And there was no welfare back then.
In the early 1980’s I worked for our welfare department as an account clerk in the Food Stamp Dept. Back when we used to issue ATP’s and then they had to take the ATP to the post office to trade them in for the actual vouchers called food stamps. We issued a lot of General Deliverys. If the GD’s weren’t picked up at the post office by a certain date every month the ATP’s would come back to our office and the recipient would have to come in to the office to pick them up. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’d give them the ATP and they’d head straight to the post office to ‘cash’ them in and be back at our back door of the office at 5 pm when we walked out trying to sell them to us. lol
Yes it has. A friend of mine was purchasing food stamps for cash in 1974 in Cleveland.
The people running the program wouldn’t have jobs if no-one got these cards handed out by the government.