Some people find themselves suddenly with assets but no income. If you've lost a job, you can't eat the iPad you bought back when you could afford it 2 years ago on opening day.
Bingo. And according to US News, there are tens of thousands of people in that position in this country -- and not just lost jobs, but lost homes.
Is it possible that someone in a fur coat is actually volunteering to shop for an old friend who is bedridden or something?
I've done that more than once for people I know.
Ah. Thanks for the correction, guys. Someone had told me once that WIC was our state food stamp program, and it didn't occur to me to verify that.
People here get WIC and food stamps confused partly because the things you can buy with food stamps are the ones you can get with WIC, so if you have the food stamps card you look for the WIC labels, and also because Oregon issues identical cards instead of making two different ones.
So what did the food stamp people do when you turned her in?
A gal at the state offices told me once that there's no way to prove it unless they catch the person with the sold card, and the only way to do that would be probable cause, and there's no way to get probable cause.
I actually bought someone's card once when he had to pay a medical bill. He was going to sell me a $200 card for $75, which would have barely covered his medical bill. He wouldn't take more, but I went and got him $75 worth of groceries to make it more fair.
And I learned that it's easy to use someone else's card. There are so many new people going on food stamps that the grocery store people are used to folks who don't know how it works.
And BTW, I couldn't buy steaks -- except from the discount pile, which would have to be tossed the next day so they're from 1/2 to 2/3 off.
But is the system broken? So far no in this thread who is complaining about it has shown proof of that other then stories they heard.
Rubbish. This shows me you aren't actually reading the thread, because some people are reporting what they have seen/experienced -- first-person reports, not hearsay.
Besides which, the gal in the office here admitted to me that there is a LOT of fraud, people selling their cards, people lying about income -- but it would cost more to investigate and prosecute than the amounts involved are worth. And they don't publish any figures because all they have is estimates, and even if they published their guesses, it would trigger investigations that would interfere with them helping people who need it.
I kind of feel for her in that job, because every time she takes a new applicant, she wonders if it's a real need or someone scamming.
lol
@ fuckers rubbing nickels mad cause somebody has a shiny penny. 
