In the case of my exwife, I was going through divorce and proved to the court she was commiting food stamp fraud and that she had entered the marriage fraudulently.
Liberals in charge there ignored all the evidence, gave all the custodies of my children to her, and put her right back on food stamp.
This is what Obama is doing: he is betraying the country with MExican illegals and fraudulent feminist armies, just so he can get elected and the country be secured away from jailing him once the Russian and CHinese come in after the army has been perverted and dwindled.
I’ve been around food stamps, back when they were paper.
One strange thing was that if you did not use them all for a couple months in a row, you got your benefit reduced.
This led to a situation where the recipient MUST go buy a couple of tenderloins, a cooked lobster or two (raw lobster or shrimp not covered, but the grocery store would steam it for you). This usually happened at the end of the month. Just to keep at the benefit level you were at. I knew someone who’d buy a roast, then invite folks over for a dinner, and charge them some small amount, sort of like a rent party.
And there were huge bags of rice and blocks of a cheese-like substance like fireplace logs, sacks of beans, and instant milk.
cutting food stamps by $1/month can save a half billion dollars per year.
This article is very misleading. The food portion of the money on an ebt card cannot purchase the following: hot food of any kind, laundry detergent, soap, toothpaste, toilet paper, paper plates.
The food portion, or credits, can purchase soda, candy, cheese doodles, ringdings, twinkies.
This doesn’t make sense to me -
There is also a small cash allotment that could theoretically be used at a fried chicken place, but it would be used up after four or five meals.
We're on the wrong road............ >
I am so pissed off over the food stamp (EBT card) fiasco. The whole mess should be dumped and we just use UPS or Fed Ex or even the post office to deliver a box of powdered milk, powdered eggs, dried potatoes and some cans of soup to these peoples homes each week.
At most, it should cost about 10 or 20 per person per week.
Rather than focus on how some poor and/or unfortunate people are spending their food stamp money, why not focus on getting the economy back on track so folks don’t need food stamps?
Making stores report on what’s being purchased, and then folks examining the data and second guessing purchases, then trying to “outlaw” certain items, sounds like the creation of a new multi-billion dollar government department, as well as adding costs to retailers.
Plus, who is going to determine what is “taboo”? Michelle Obama? Too much salt in that soup, no soup for you! Too much sugar in that Gatorade, so you home-bound cancer patients who need it to rehydrate lost electrolytes, too bad!
Sounds like a politicized boon-doggle waiting to happen.
The USDA Food Stamp program has been screwed-up and fraudulent since the early 1970s. The university study showed how and why...but the honchos at the USDA stuck the report in the file and said “thanks”.
The real scammers register in multiple counties and redeems in out-of-the-way locations. Stores that have more redemptions than they have inventory purchases....hummm sounds hard to do.
I don’t believe it’s as much a matter of won’t as can’t.
Studies were done during the Bush era that looked at the specific issue of salted snacks and soft drinks. They found that food stamp customers purchased less of these (both in the absolute and as a proportion of their spending) than cash customers did. This was one reason why the programs did not bother to ban these items, as requiring retailers to identify and exclude them would raise the cost of the programs.
Here in Indiana one of the tv stations got a file of all the ATM withdrawals made with Indiana Supplemental Assistance. That’s basically “welfare” over and above EBT.
It was interesting: NYC, Vegas, Calif, Puerto Rico, casinos all over the country, Disney Orlando, Nevada brothels, Hawaii. Glad these “victims” are able to take nice vacations.
Bought take-and-bake pizza at Papa Murhphy’s the other night. Went to pick them up and a sign in the window welcomed EBT cards. I won’t be back.