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It would be interesting to know whether it was due to inadequate screening/bad procedures at application or applicants providing false information
Lifeline got audited and 41% didn't qualify. The audit uncovered that the application information was never verified. The audit also uncovered that they didn't track people and many had several lifeline phones with different carriers. The government took people's word that they weren't making money and also left people on their own to only get one phone.
Medicaid is NOT FOOD STAMPS. This thread is about deep cuts to country's food stamp program. Additionally, your link just proves that there are checks on public assistance programs. Now those who don't qualify for Medicaid can get obamacare at an affordable price if they are low income.
Medicaid is NOT FOOD STAMPS. This thread is about deep cuts to country's food stamp program. Additionally, your link just proves that there are checks on public assistance programs. Now those who don't qualify for Medicaid can get obamacare at an affordable price if they are low income.
Considering 26 states didn't expand I wouldn't count on it.
Even more false is that this is a "cut". It's not a cut at all. It was a temporary increase that has now expired. NO CUTS were made to the SNAP program.
Are you somehow under the deluded impression that fraud occurs in the Medicaid program but not any other government welfare program?
Not true. I have no doubt there is fraud in every system, including our war machine apparatus. HOWEVER, this thread is about food stamps, not Medicaid. Your post was irrelevant to this discussion.
Nothing says "America" like cutting off the SNAP program for millions of kids. God bless America.
That's right.
What kind of person would object to being compelled to labor for the benefit of another?
What kind of ingratitude is that?
It's a privilege to be a serf* on the government plantation.
(*or your favorite politically incorrect term for slave)
Even more false is that this is a "cut". It's not a cut at all. It was a temporary increase that has now expired. NO CUTS were made to the SNAP program.
Yes, obviously EVERYBODY knows that food stamp beneficiaries are not getting a "cut" however the EFFECT of the expiration of the temporary increase is experienced as a CUT. So the reality is that people who are so poor and have so little income are now receiving EVEN LESS in food purchasing assistance. That EFFECTIVELY is a cut from the amount they were receiving last month. You REALLY SHOULD try to step out of your biased comfort zone and read a little bit about some of the realities faced by those living in poverty and below the poverty line today. Helping people EAT who are so poor they have difficulty buying the food they need, in fact HELPS YOU IN THAT IT HELPS THE ECONOMY. That money goes directly to grocery stores, who buy food which ultimately comes from farms, etc., etc. So the expiration of that temporary boost to SNAP is going to hurt YOU TOO.
"According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), "Without the Recovery Act’s boost, SNAP benefits will average less than $1.40 per person per meal in 2014.” Peter Edelman, a professor of law at Georgetown University, said, "The Republican attack on food stamps is ‘totally counter-factual.’ Millions of people are unemployed and millions more don’t earn enough to pay all their bills. The idea that food stamps, which provide support at one-third of the poverty line, is incentivizing people not to seek jobs that don’t exist anyway is beyond bizarre." In fact, writes Cook, extensive research shows food stamps are a highly effective investment for all Americans, not just the poor. The CBPP found that for every $5 in food stamps, $9 in economic activity is generated. Moreover, food stamps lift millions out of poverty and improve the health of children. “When food stamps get spent,” says Cook, “we all benefit.”
Can you counter the above claim, even with something from a right wing blog which says and explains what the above is not true?
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