NO! Truly needy starving people are not going to be kicked off this program. Of course, in America there aren't that many starving people here.
Here are the facts: https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-agency-uncovers-one-largest-food-stamp-fraud-bribery-schemes
Trump agency uncovers 'one of the largest' food stamp fraud, bribery schemes
With the assistance of the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office, six individuals have been criminally charged with a bribe and fraud scheme that generated more than $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps. The defendants — Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh and Arlasa Davis — are accused of "conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate U.S. Department of Agriculture benefits," according to a press release.\
Starting in 2019, the indictment states that Kehoe created a network that supplied 160 unauthorized electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to stores across the New York area, to illegally process more than $30 million in EBT transactions.
"This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch. Their actions undermined a program that vulnerable New Yorkers depend on for basic nutrition," U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone said in the media release. "That is no longer going to be allowed here in Washington, and with these programs like the food stamp program. So we're going to move forward, obviously in partnership with the FBI, with the Department of Justice, of course our team at USDA. This is not the 'one and only,’" Rollins said. "There are going to be many more to come, and we're gonna make sure that we're delivering on our promises to the taxpayers."
Nobody who actually needs those food stamps will be cut off. But those who have defrauded the program have been arrested. They're going to prison, hopefully.
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i live in a small town many cities around, every day people are arrested for welfare fraud, most have boy or girl friend who works, they will sell a $100 snap benifit to someone for $70 to buy smokes, booze , drugs, lots of cheaters all over, a friends daugther got pregnant just to collect benefits, it need work
@oldguy73 snap benefits sometimes get traded for disposable diapers. In part because housing projects may be poorly managed and laundry equipment doesn't work.
Per my understanding, the biggest reason for public housing evictions after drugs is undocumented co-residents. Friends who have a job but live their under the radar to keep the subsidized rent low, and share the food purchased via snap, WIC or the community pantry. People live below the radar for lots of other reasons, outstanding arrest warrants, child support, income under the table, etc. Sympathetic bureaucrat look the other way.
I spent a few years studying the system, so count me in as sympathetic towards the people locked in by welfare systems that are difficult or impossible to escape.
I agree, dumping 10 million illegals atop a welfare system that locks people in rather serves as a pathway out of poverty is to inflict yet more misery.
But while I agree with the notion that people can work their way out of poverty, poverty in the US has been institutionalized to feed on itself and grow. Locking many poor people on the inside.
My impression of people locked in poverty is that they are every bit as smart and moral as me and possibly you, but the system locks them in, by isolating them, my destroying our micro economy, with too many regulations, by uneven policing, etc., etc., etc.
@Heartlanderthe point is people work under the table, getting paid in cash, might make 2 hundred a week, but not pay taxes, so thier income level qualifies them for welfare benefits, happens everywhere in usa,
Yep. And if that under the table money is drug and gang related people are afraid to complain.
I grew up in the 40s and 50s, small town, when the micro economy was flourishing. People raised chickens and sold eggs, or collected moss from trees and sold it, or shined shoes, or took in wash, or ironed shirts, sharpened lawnmower blades, etc. A dirt poor family that lived around the block the mom made turn-over pies and the kid walked the street to sell then. The micro economy was a stepping stone for both survival and escape. Welfare sadly replaced that micro economy, or the survival part. But also took away the launch pad for escaping poverty.
What seems to happen in big cities is that the housing authority distributes renters by age/stability category. Like matured older in one housing community, young single parents in another, etc. While it helps keep the younger and wilder population from annoying the senior citizens it concentrates the "troublemaker" inclined in another where they may be unmanageable.
