Michigan lottery winner still on food stamps

So tell me about Michigan's food stamps are they paper booklets?

 

Nope. It's all digital.

It's a plastic card that you swipe like a credit card at the grocery store. It automatically deducts eligible items from your bill. If it's not eligible it won't deduct it. It's impossible to use the card to pay for something that is an approved food item.

 

Can you get cash from an ATM with the card?

 

Not if you're only on the food stamp program. No. If you're collecting some other type of program that offers cash then yes. But food stamps does not offer cash. You cannot exchange food stamps for cash.

 

all loopholes should be closed for the rich, but will that happen, not if the right has anything to say about it... they see closing loopholes as raising taxes

 

nope, it's just for food

 

No where in the original article does it state which bridge card she has. There is a video, but I can't get it to play.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...-card/-/1719314/9223492/-/yfwc6d/-/index.html

Once I can, if she receives any change or cash back after her purchase we will know for sure.

 

Beyond most lefties paygrade, but see: Fungibility of money.

Taxpayers picking up the tab for her food (necessities) frees up her cash for lotto tickets...or booze....or drugs....or nail salons....

 

Laughable, isn't it!?

Magical thinking lefties.... from Pelosi on down to the indoctrinated dullard on Main Street... are always trying to make that argument.

Government confiscating a dollar from Peter and redistributing it to Paul...

only changes the name of who's spending it in the economy.

 

Foxes watchin' the henhouse...

USDA Lets Retailers Convicted of Food Stamp Fraud Stay in Food Stamp Program
March 8, 2012 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not have a policy to ban food stamp retailers from the food stamp program even when they have been convicted of defrauding the government of benefits because it is costly, according to government auditors.

See also:

Food Stamp Program Doesn’t Check SSNs of Some Recipients
March 8, 2012 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture-administered food stamp program does not check the Social Security Number (SSNs) of some of its 46.3 million recipients, many of whom are using the numbers of dead people and invalid SSNs to get benefits potentially totaling $1.1 million a month, according to a government audit.

 

"the bridge card" is the food stamp card. no change is given.

 

Does it really matter either way? The stamps that are not used can recycled and put back in to the system to go to another person.

 

She is breaking the law. Technincly she has communit fraud saying that she needs food stamps because she can’t afford to eat. Yet she has the loto winnings in her account. If the state wants to bring changes, she is going to jail.

If I am working and I clam that I am unemployed and file paper work then I get a check, that is fraud. She is done the same thing.

 

Yes you can. It's not legal, but happens all the time.

 

Mark my words, the cost of putting in place a system to combat this idiocy will be higher than than any awarded lottery amount. The cost of bureaucracy will undo any benefit.

Why does it come to the point of a lottery winner doing this before action is taken? The whole thing is crap. Why does it take this event for it to be determined that someone doesn't deserve something at the expense of others? Whenever the government gets in the nanny business it must lay patch upon patch to cover up the nonsense it created.

 

What struck me the most by this story was that the recipient saw absolutely nothing wrong with continuing her entitlements, even though she had won a million dollars. This way of thinking is what is drilled in the minds of so many low income/poor people who are receiving various forms of gov't assistance. (and no, I know not 100% of them think this way), but the majority that I personally know do think this way, it's as if it's their right. This woman felt that it was the working taxpayers responsibility to give her money for food since she has two houses to pay bills for. This seems to be the mindset that the Obama administration has been working to create. Personal responsibility, work ethic, and morals do not coincide with the liberal way.

 

she was not lying when she applied, no way she could of known she was gonna win the lottery

 

LOL, you're funny. After she won the lottery, she continued to accept food stamps month after month, so yes, that was her way of saying she needed the working taxpayers to feed her.

 

Huh? What kind of rational thought is that? Are you serious?

Her not having psychic abilities isn't the issue - it's the fact that she did win the lottery and didn't report her winnings to the state and felt she was entitled to free food b/c she had 'no income, no job' but had 2 houses and had half a mil in the bank........ she was no longer exactly 'below poverty level'.......

When a person is on any kind of assistance, they are obligated by law to report any change in their financial status to the state. Period.

 

Silly girl, obviously not very bright. Had she been...

...she would have pretended not to speak english, implied that she was Mexican here illegally, and would have not only had her lottery winnings but uninterrupted social assistance as well.

 

I agree. Food stamps were never intended for millionaires.

 

Unless you have proof she was selling them, the money she spend on the lottery wasn't from food stamps.

 

But if she didn't get the food stamps, the money that she spent on lottery tickets would have gone to food instead.

Money is fungible. Claiming that money from one source is used for one purpose and doesn't affect other spending is an accounting trick - not reality.