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Posted on 04/10/2026 3:28:51 AM PDT by dennisw
Rob Undersander is a millionaire. He also received taxpayer-funded food stamps. His story illustrates an absurd – and intentional – loophole in America’s welfare system that taxpayers need closed immediately.
Rob applied for food stamps in 2016. A Minnesota resident, he clearly exceeded the program’s asset limits. But in the application process, he was deemed eligible to receive a brochure on domestic violence services, which under state policy allowed him to receive food stamps. Three weeks later, his first food-stamp benefits arrived in the mail.
The taxpayer cash arrived like clockwork for the next 19 months, ultimately amounting to more than $6,000. (Rob only did this to prove the system was broken, and instead of keeping the money, he donated every penny to charity.)
It’s no accident that despite being a millionaire, Rob received welfare payments that are supposed to be for the truly vulnerable. The federal government and states have conspired to create a system that intentionally bypasses the program’s eligibility standards. Call it fraud by design.
Federal law establishes two ways to qualify for stamps – either by meeting the income and asset limits, or by qualifying for a cash welfare program. But in 1999, the Clinton administration issued guidance that lets states decide what qualifies as a benefit under those programs. States have responded by offering benefits that are nothing of the kind, in a deliberate attempt to bypass the asset and income limits for food stamps. The domestic violence brochure that Rob received is a good example. States routinely print pamphlets or establish hotlines that have nothing to do with food stamps, yet states deem them as benefits that let ineligible people get on the program anyway.
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If your wife or gal pal beats ya to a pulp! Gay roommates too! Take photos of black eyes, fake missing teeth and other battle scars.
Has your domestic illegal alien cook or butler been walloping you nightly?
Is there any good left in Minnesota?
Interesting. I wonder if my wife’s nagging to work on the honey do list qualifies as abuse.
The system encourages people to lie.
Yes, like Colorado, New York and parts of California it’s the rural people that vote red. They are basically good Americans. The governments run by these blue states have a voter monopoly in the large blue cities that are infested with crime and corruption. Minnesota just happens to be in competition with CommieFornia for leader of the pack.
Some thoughts of mine regarding welfare reform:
Section 8 could be reformed to have caps 40% of HUD fair market rent for the first adult, 20% for the second adult, 20% for the first kid, 10% for the second kid. Invaders would not qualify.
In calculating Section 8 benefits, $800/month might be added to the lowest adult income and up to $1,500/month removed from the second adult income.
An additional non-medical welfare benefit (Obamaphone, SNAP, WIC, TANF, housing help other than Section 8 as above) cap per person might start at $0 and rise $1,000 each year after 2 years of age for up to 10 years. Any drawdown under these programs not paid back would be offset by the Social Security program.
To help finance federal welfare benefits, additional benefit drawdowns would result in the federal acquisition (for a period twice as long as the amounts have not been paid back) of tort damages other than amounts paid out by the injured party for vehicle damage or medical care.
Kids under age 2 would not qualify for any non-medical welfare benefit other than WIC.
Um, Professor, question: Why is the federal government involved in food stamps, day care, housing...?
This article is factually incorrect correct and poorly written. At least this article found at the link to Political gets it correct.
“I received up to $341 per month for the household and that is way above the average,” he said. “And part of the reason that’s above the average is because the SNAP benefit computations look at net income.”
“Minnesota doesn’t use a person’s assets to determine food-stamp eligibility. Undersander said they qualified because his retirement income was low.“
While I agree with the intent of the article and agree with its premise, facts still matter.
Minnesota must be a HELL HOLE now.
You are trying to reform rules for folks playing board games on the Titanic.
It sounds like fun though.
Lol.
Wasn’t Garrison Keeler’s Lake Woebegone set in Minnesota?
Guess the lake dried up.
“ Rob only did this to prove the system was broken, and instead of keeping the money, he donated every penny to charity.)”
Still stolen money from taxpayers.
Whatever the charity, Rob had no right to fraudulently receive the money and pass it along.
Cloward-Piven
Been thinking the same thing. I cannot find it in the constitution. When you figure that most of the money goes to workers deciding where the money goes, fraud, other waste, etc., why is the feds even involved to begin with? Why not just let me have my money and let me decide who deserves my generosity? It would be more money to help those in need.
Rob Undersander. Domestic Violence? Let me guess….. 🤔
“ Rob only did this to prove the system was broken, and instead of keeping the money, he donated every penny to charity.)”
So, he still pocketed the tax break for the charitable deduction.
“Good enuf fer goverment work”
All part of the plan by the Cultural Marxists to destroy our traditional culture and country and remake it from the ground up in their own image.
When they tell you who they are. Believe them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
Because that’s where the money is.
- Willie Sutton
“But in the application process, he was deemed eligible to receive a brochure on domestic violence services, which under state policy allowed him to receive food stamps. “
Uh?? How does receiving a brochure qualify you for food stamps?
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