Posted on 06/27/2012 6:12:04 AM PDT by smokingfrog
I am a welfare case manager in Florida. If someone doesn’t turn in their timesheet and meet the federal participation rate of 87 hrs per month(child under 6) I sanction and snatch benefits immediately. Level one sanction is loss of cash for 10 days, food stamps for a month. They must re-apply and go through the work registration process all over( workshops, resume on state database, 45 day waiting period for processing). Im not defending welfare, this is what I do. Not that I like it...
I don’t think you can get them any more.
LOL...
There are two simple ways to avoid the work requirement.
1 get pregnant every 5 years. Thus always having a kid under 6
2 spend 20 hours a week “looking” for work. since there is no way to verify how much time someone actually spent looking.
Lame easy to bypass rule.
see post 83.
since your “in the know” how does one monitor their job search activity?
Well, then, these people are being deprived! It's a racist conspiracy to not give them unlimited texting and internet on their free phones!
Job searches, to count for federal participation rate, must be monitored at your states one stop center. If your region is allowing recipients to do flippant job searches, state and federal monitoring should pick this up and should be fined. There is alot of oversight, but regional workforce boards must meet participation (50% single families and 90% two parent families) to get paid. I get there is deception out there. Participation is what its all about..mc
I know.. my phones been turned off for two months. Im on wi-fi..
Depends on who you get your obama phone from. Some will allow you to pay a small fee for extras including extra minutes.
Get an obama phone with a sim card and you can remove the sim and stick it in any unlocked phone you want.
so.. they have to spend 20 hours at the search center per week? or they have to turn in documentation that they spend the required time looking?
Im doing something wrong then. I can’t afford my phone. But then again, im a 41yr old guy that didn’t breed at will... no kids=no “benefits”..
I never got a straight answer as to why every AFB chow hall I’ve seen had an ambulance parked in front.
I hear ya. there are some super cheap prepaid plans out there now. Might still be out of reach for you at this time though.
Good luck :)
Go back to dept of agriculture commodities. Government cheese & peanut butter.
Some neighbors had us over for dinner the other night - steak and crab. My wife said “They must be back on unemployment again”.
Im going with Virgin soon. Seem to have the best plan for $35/mo. See, even us working stiffs have to plan our budgets..
You are clearly knowledgeable about the program and potential abuses. In my state, however, the only food stores that are eligible to participate as SNAP vendors are ones that have the state supplied (or approved) equipment to read the barcode (there are a few exceptions in extremely remote areas). Now some of the farmer’s markets are accepting SNAP but this is only possible because of the wireless EBT terminals the state distributes to the vendors. The same requirements apply to distribution of EBT cash benefits but as you say, once they have the cash in their hands there are no controls.
IN minnesota a simple credit card terminal is used in some locations..
Now they are making some changes..
this might shock you..
They are going to put the recipients name on the card..
And in this state they already have the name on the card and are planning to include the photo from the driver’s license or state-issued ID on the next go-round. No problem for illegals, there are many with driver’s licenses and IDs from this state. The state does check the immigration status of the primary account holder but merely excludes illegal adults from benefits, not the kids. But obviously the parent(s) do eat from the grocery bag just like the kids.
“Each MRE provides an average of 1,250 calories”
That’s because MREs were intended for men doing heavy stressful things. Not welfare slugs sitting around doing nothing.
I say give them a bag of rice and another of beans. That along with government cheese and powered milk is all they need.
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