Seriously, we gotta fix that monthly income limit for foodstamps qualification. A family of three who gets an extra payday in a month goes from $400 in assistance to nothing and has to reapply. It’s a very messed up method of helping people, and a great way to encourage people NOT to work hard. Earn $1899, you’re golden. Earn $1900, you get nothing. It just doesn’t make sense.
Here is how the scam works
Married couple through religion but never file for marriage certificate from state
they have 7 kids
husband owns a business or is a lawyer or good paying career, makes over 200K a year
wife files for and gets food stamps, section 8, welfare for her and her 7 kids
husband owns the family home under a LLC Holding company
husband “rents” the family home to his wife so he can collect section 8 voucher
dozen of people were caught doing this, and not a single one was punished, the worse offender was a couple that had a business making a profit of 1.3 million a year.
Public assistance is overall a scam on the tax payers and needs to be abolished.
Agreed. Pro-rate it.
Reward effort. If someone is helping themselves that’s one thing. When people get something for NOTHING we create problem “bears”.
I’ve been preaching to my wife for some time about subsidies and their outcomes: She has been financing her daughter and 35yo husband to the tune of about 25K per year. She now also pays tuition for a medical technician trade designed to get him into a 50K a year job.
He currently earns about 20K a year and they get some assistance like food stamps as they have two kids. I point out to her that when he gets his job, she is dreaming about not having to continue a subsidy because when they pay taxes on a 50K job and lose their public assistance, in essence, he will be making LESS. My wife plans to retire in two years when he graduates. I say, good luck with that because she has painted herself into a corner. As soon as she says no, she is going to hear: but it is for the grand children. It is sad because he is a good kid but neither he nor my wife are realistic on this issue.
I cannot fathom how this works out for families who cannot afford to do what we can do but the problem is eventually the well runs out for even most of those who can. While we own our home outright, there are expenses that come with a money pit home. Our vehicles are over ten years old and we do not take but one short vacation a year. Yet, we are comfortable with things as they are as long as my wife continues to work.