Food stamp fraud rampant: GAO report

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Food stamp fraud rampant: GAO report
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/22/food-stamp-fraud-rampant-gao-report/

My two immediate steps for reducing Food Stamp fraud:
1) Require a Photo Id when making a purchase with an EBT (Foodstamp) card. I am required to show my picture id when making a purchase at a store where they don't know me - same rule should apply to EBT cards. All EBT cards should have the recipients full name on it to align with the ID. Require all retail stores to photo id check for EBT purchases. If the store does not check then the store should be responsible for the fraud, and not be reimbursed for the purchase.

2) Do not allow more than ONE EBT card per quarter year, no replacements. This prevents the fraud where the recipient's card is "lost" (traded for cash or drugs) over & over again. The one exception to this is if the recipient files a police report that their card was stolen. This means that holder of the "stolen" card can be arrested when they are found with it, or they present the "stolen" card to a cashier at a retail store.
 
gwb-trading said:
Food stamp fraud rampant: GAO report
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/22/food-stamp-fraud-rampant-gao-report/

My two immediate steps for reducing Food Stamp fraud:
1) Require a Photo Id when making a purchase with an EBT (Foodstamp) card. I am required to show my picture id when making a purchase at a store where they don't know me - same rule should apply to EBT cards. All EBT cards should have the recipients full name on it to align with the ID. Require all retail stores to photo id check for EBT purchases. If the store does not check then the store should be responsible for the fraud, and not be reimbursed for the purchase.

2) Do not allow more than ONE EBT card per quarter year, no replacements. This prevents the fraud where the recipient's card is "lost" (traded for cash or drugs) over & over again. The one exception to this is if the recipient files a police report that their card was stolen. This means that holder of the "stolen" card can be arrested when they are found with it, or they present the "stolen" card to a cashier at a retail store.
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really? That's the best you can come up with? We can solve this country's problems by eliminating fraud poor people are committing with their food stamp card?

I'm sure it pisses you off, but if you really want to make a difference, try medicare and the military.

otherwise, you are just a grumpy old man nitpicking about little shit

Takes a pretty cold heart to deny poor people food

I was on food stamps once. They gave me way too much money. I use to buy the whole Thanksgiving Dinner every year for my extended family.

get a life, bitch about something that matters
 
loyek590 said:
really? That's the best you can come up with? We can solve this country's problems by eliminating fraud poor people are committing with their food stamp card?

I'm sure it pisses you off, but if you really want to make a difference, try medicare and the military.

otherwise, you are just a grumpy old man nitpicking about little shit

Takes a pretty cold heart to deny poor people food

I was on food stamps once. They gave me way too much money. I use to buy the whole Thanksgiving Dinner every year for my extended family.

get a life, bitch about something that matters
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More likely he's a grumpy young man. There are a lot of those here. And I doubt that many of them -- if any -- know how food stamps work, that you get only so much money per month and you're only allowed to buy food with it. The anti-helping-others contigent, usually Christians, get all upset when they see somebody buying steak with a food stamp card. What they don't understand is that if one is buying steak, he won't be eating much that month.
 
dbphoenix said:
More likely he's a grumpy young man. There are a lot of those here. And I doubt that many of them -- if any -- know how food stamps work, that you get only so much money per month and you're only allowed to buy food with it. The anti-helping-others contigent, usually Christians, get all upset when they see somebody buying steak with a food stamp card. What they don't understand is that if one is buying steak, he won't be eating much that month.
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well, I can tell you, when I was on them they gave me an outlandish amount, like $180/mo for a single man.
I bought steak all the time. As a matter of fact, still to this day I eat differently than I did when I was poor. No more beans and rice. Stuffed olives, gilfilte fish, frozen breaded shrimp and cocktail sauce. In the long run, it's cheaper than beans and rice. I can thank food stamps for showing me how to live well buying expensive food.

otherwise, it's chicken shit. Why not just raise taxes on the poor? Or make food stamps taxable? There, then, that will teach them! That's the problem with the USA today. Poor people are getting too much money. If we are not careful, poor people will have more money than the rich.
 
You must have lived in a generous state.

Even so, if you think poor people are getting too much money, you must not be spending much time around poor people these days. Or you're living in that same generous state. Our poor are not living anywhere near high off the hog.
 
dbphoenix said:
You must have lived in a generous state.

Even so, if you think poor people are getting too much money, you must not be spending much time around poor people these days. Or you're living in that same generous state. Our poor are not living anywhere near high off the hog.
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they would give me $180/mo. And then in six months a phone interview, and it was a given you would get renewed. Then you would get a 1 year interview, and they would ask for documentation. By then I would have $1200 on my ebt card and just not bother until the balance reached $200, and re apply.
 
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "all the time". If you had steak every day, at $7/lb, a half-pound a day would be $105. That would leave $75 for everything else, or $2.50 a day.

Better than eating canned dog food, but a diet one could easily get tired of.
 
dbphoenix said:
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "all the time". If you had steak every day, at $7/lb, a half-pound a day would be $105. That would leave $75 for everything else, or $2.50 a day.

Better than eating canned dog food, but a diet one could easily get tired of.
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unless you are a fat pig who eats all day and spends all morning on the toilet I find it hard to believe a single man can eat $180 worth of groceries in a month. I know I couldn't do it. That's why I ended up with a $1200 balance on my ebt card.

I'm all for feeding the poor. No one in the USA, or the world for that matter should be hungry.

it's chicken shit to bitch about food stamps, but I can tell you from personal experience, they could be a little more efficient.

and furthermore, the only beef I eat is filet mignon. $7.00/lb? More like $19/lb. But it's about the same at the checkout counter as a ribeye (due to smaller size.)
 
Depends on what you're eating and where you live. A 6oz filet every day would be $210 a month at $19/lb, so, no, it wouldn't be difficult for a single man to eat $180 in groceries in a month.

Yes, they could be more efficient, but the food stamp allowance is not a blanket amount. What you get depends at least in part on assets. Perhaps a more productive study would be means-testing for Social Security. It was begun, after all, as a literal social safety net. How many old Congressmen who are forever complaining about government waste are collecting and cashing Social Security checks (Ron Paul, for one)?
 
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