Why Do Folks Persist In the Belief That "Welfare" Still Exists?

[BornOKThe1stTime]

Originally Posted by camping!

So...that would be ten years?
Yeah, I can see how noone can scam such a fool proof system as that

You haven't been listening, you can have benefits for 2 years consecutively, but 5 years TOTAL in your life.

[Anonymous Political Junky]

Originally Posted by BornOKThe1stTime

You haven't been listening, you can have benefits for 2 years consecutively, but 5 years TOTAL in your life.

And you haven't been listening either because many of the former welfare people got moved over to SSI to collect. BTW, that five years is not five years in all states. Some states actually made the lifetime limit to be less.