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Perhaps you would like to give us a link for this? I can tell you for a fact that Colorado SNAP recipients can't cruise into Domino's and order a large with extra cheese. I get so tired of the false information posted on this forum which everyone jumps on as the gospel truth.
These are all corporate franchise-owned with substantial regional lobbies at the state level. Mileage varies, state to state.
I haven't seen a link for this at all, and when I search "Pizza Hut EBT" all I find are other threads on different message boards where someone has posted this, also with no source. This was posted on IGN 3 years ago and someone who worked at Pizza Hut chimed in and said "as far as I know, we don't accept them so this is just a rumor"... so... show me the sources first.
It was the move to cellphones that opened the floodgates to fraud.
The FCC didn't have any safeguards put in place to address that. Obama had nothing to do with that.
Landlines were physical connections and it was impossible to get 2 lines installed.
It wasn't until last year with soaring costs that the FCC finally did an audit and put a database in place and starting requiring the carriers to verify income. With that 41% of the subscribers didn't qualify anymore.
It was a windfall for the carriers, all along, disguised as helping the poor.
Why do so many here assume people on food stamps don't work?
Mostly because your average right wing nutjob is both a pathological liar and incredibly stupid. They like "truthiness", things which kind of sound like they might be true, rather than things which are actually true and which do not fit their political ideology. Intelligent people look at the facts and then make policies based upon those facts while the RWNJ has policies he's told to support by the right wing media and then he desperately fishes around for something, anything, to support that ideology deliberately ignoring every fact which does not support their chosen world view.
Here's the hard facts: ~50% of people on food stamps work or are children to young to legally work. ~25% are elderly receiving social security leaving just 25% who do not have a job.
I haven't seen a link for this at all, and when I search "Pizza Hut EBT" all I find are other threads on different message boards where someone has posted this, also with no source. This was posted on IGN 3 years ago and someone who worked at Pizza Hut chimed in and said "as far as I know, we don't accept them so this is just a rumor"... so... show me the sources first.
This is determined at the state, not federal level.
You make an excellent point. I'll add another. The majority of Section 8 recipients are Seniors. Many alsoo rely on SNAP. 10,000 people a day began to turn 65 in 2010 and this trend will continue for the next 20 years.
Turning 65 only qualifies them for medicare now.
SS is 66 for anyone born after 1943.
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