Food Stamp Fraudulence
How many people steal from food benefit programs?
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Sugar & Grocery Tax?
$2.1 Million stolen from benefits by two NYC employees
Food Stamp Fruad
Elbert Eugene Shinholster, a business owner, gives people cash along with some groceries when they pay with food stamps- he even makes a profit from it (keeping .30 of every dollar). For some strange reason, this man believed he "wasn't doing anything wrong."
Annually, 1.3 percent of all food stamp money goes to illegal trafficking; which is less than the 4 percent it was at in the 1990's.
You're paying for other people to not work
It'd be a-okay if people not only needed food stamps, but used them for what they're intended for.
The Question is: How many people are really abusing food stamps?
Governor Romney stated almost half of all food stamp users, are abusers.
The true question isn't how many people abuse food stamps, but how much money is stolen.
In 2011, the total amount of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) spending was $129 billion. Over 300 Americans received benefits while they had "insufficient, contradictory, or incomplete evidence" supporting their needs for beneficial programs.
The "monitoring" system for getting benefits are extraordinarily lacking considering the average lifetime benefits total $300,000.
In Oklahoma city, about 5,400 cases were submitted for benefits and almost 90% were approved for more than 1.6 billion dollars in total lifetime benefits. How many of those people do you think are lying? We have yet to find out because the security for "free money" is lacking.
Where I live, in Delaware, there are 44,879 households receiving SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Luckily there are a total of 337,245 houses in Delaware, so 44,879 houses can be put into the total houses 7.51 times. However, out of the 44,979, 32,817 work. So, what's happening to the 12,062 that aren't working? Are they able to work? Are they not able to work? We won't know, because security on benefit programs is still lacking.