No, this story has been around since the beginning of time. There are some people that, no matter how much they earn, they live paycheck to paycheck and it sometimes says NOTHING about how they don’t have enough to scrape by.
Just try shopping at your average military commissary on payday — same phenomenon. Some folks seem to spend a whole bunch of money as soon as they get it, then inch by the end of the month.
“Just try shopping at your average military commissary on payday...”
...good point!...the articles and others like it, seem to make it look like a hardship for the food stamp card to last a month...when I was in the Army everybody had to stretch their pay for a month...that was SOP and nobody cried the blues about it.