Bracing for the steep cuts in food stamp benefits, and their effects on Latino families

nbclatino.com ^ | November 01, 2013 | Sandra Lilley and Suzanne Gamboa

[Elsiejay]

1. These would largely be citizens of Mexico, one supposes.

2. Census definition of “Latino,” and names of national bodies politic from which they originate? Where to find? Anyone?.

[VerySadAmerican]

I thought the recession was over. And Al Queda is on the run.

[Junk Silver]

In light of this crisis we should instruct all the guards and custom agents along the Mexican border to stop preventing Mexicans who are in the USA illegally from returning home.

” It seems Republicans are more interested in cutting taxes for billionaires than feeding our nation’s poor children,” Hinojosa added.”

Personally I’m more interested in my country still having a viable economy and currency when my children grow up.

[1010RD]

The GOP is really at fault here. Why did they cut off tortillas, rice and beans to poor Latino families? Oh, this is just an invented crisis to trick the ignorati? Got it.

[1010RD]

National Council of La Raza reporting on Latinos is like the KKK reporting on whites.

[1010RD]

So if you were willing to work just an hour and a half a week a minimum wage you could make that up? Or if you’re in the black market for Indiana cigarettes shipped to Chicago, you’d make that back on your second pack sold.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Today, America’s Foodstamps Program Gets A 6% Haircut: What Happens Next?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-01/today-americas-foodstamps-program-gets-6-haircut-what-happens-next

[trebb]

This is why I get mad at people who feed pigeons.

Fatten them up enough and they become "squab"...

[kearnyirish2]

In my area there are many young, male, unmarried/childless illegals who work for cash and make it last. No fatties among them; they seem fascinated by how large Americans can get.

[kearnyirish2]

“People who have jobs have taken much bigger cuts, and think about how big an income cut ObamaCare is going to be”

I believe the subsidies will be the key here (though it won’t address the co-pays and deductibles); Dems have to heavily subsidize enough working people to win 51% of the vote in the next election.

[shoff]

Ay carumba! Obama fools one more group of greedy voters. After taking the chance to illegally vote for the one he surprises them by taking away their “extra” 13.6% paid for by the stimulus to stimulate them to vote. After the election his tune now is “We don’t need no stinking illegal voters”.

[central_va]

When my taxes go up 10% I do not see the same lamentations on the hardships that causes.

[Liz]

Needy? They're a bunch of con artists? The "needy cons" are falsifying official forms to get their greedy hands on food stamps.......and shipping the food to the Third World for profit. Read on.

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NYP EXCLUSIVE New York food stamp recipients ship welfare-funded groceries to Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti....and so on. Food stamps are paying to buy and ship food to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic....where the food is sold for profit.

A spokeswoman for the US Dept of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said the $86 BILLION welfare program is reserved for poor US households that buy and prepare food. "States should intervene if people are caught shipping non-perishables abroad", she said.

A senior fellow at the Cato Institute called it another example of welfare abuse. “The purpose of this program is to help Americans who don’t have enough to eat. This is not intended as a form of foreign aid.” As an example, US taxpayers spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year, govt data show.

THE MODUS OPERANDI The "needy connivers" buy $40 barrels available in supermarkets in latino enclaves---then ship them filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of EBT-paid groceries to Third World---where the groceries are sold for cash.

Pioneer Supermarket, Brooklyn sells blue plastic barrels used to ship food to the Caribbean

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POSTER'S COMMENTS taxpayers demand to know the full extent of US dollars being drained from our economy into Third World hellholes----including US foreign aid, food stamp foreign aid, wire transfers of EITC SS, SSI, UI, welfare checks, etc.

LYING IN WAIT FOR OUR TAX DOLLARS---THESE CONNIVING COUNTRIES CURRENTLY HAVE ORGANIZED PRESSURE GROUPS INSIDE THE US (here illegally): Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico (stateside)l Salvador, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela.

[sheana]

Well I have no idea what that woman is counting out but it definitely is NOT ‘ebt coupons’. There no longer are ebt coupons and haven’t been for years. There is a card just like a debit card that is reloaded with a dollar amount every month.
I worked in food stamps when we actually had food stamps coupons.

[sheana]

Actually those are probably WIC vouchers....they do not call them coupons.

[Liz]

FREEPER LISTENHILLARY POSTED: America is becoming an entitlement society (welfare state), with half of US households now receiving some type of government benefit.

Now a CBS 21 News investigation has enumerated the govt freebies available......paid for by taxpayers Reporter Chris Papst worked with a single mom who had two children.

The mother turned down a raise because the extra money would decrease her government benefits.....she admits living a life off the government. “If you’re going to get something for free, are you going to work for it?” Cogan explained. “It kind of like sucks you in.”

Here are some of the horrific details For this story, CBS 21 researched government programs available to a single mother of two making $19,000 a year.

Incredibly, govt freebies available to her include:

<>>< $14,976 in free day care,

<><> another $13,400 for Head Start and Early Head Start,

<><> $7,148 in housing vouchers,

<><> $6,500 for weatherization projects,

<><> $400 to pay heating bills,

<><> $480 a year for a cell phone,

<><> an extra $230 for a land line,

<><> $182 in free legal advice.

The family would get:

<><> more than $6,028 in food assistance

<><> another $6,045 in medical assistance.

<><> The needy mother is eligible for $5,500 school Pell Grants,

<><> an additional $12,000 for Education Opportunity Grant; SMART Grant; and TEACH Grant.

<><> $6,800 in tax credits,

<><> $1,900 in withholding would be returned.

That adds up to $81,589 in free govt assistance....paid for by stuggling taxpayers.

[Soul of the South]

“According to the National Council of La Raza, Latino families experience food insecurity at a higher rate than non-Hispanic white households (23 percent versus 11 percent). “

If it is so bad here there is a simple answer. Return to your home country.

[Tammy8]

Not sure where you are, but years ago whites, blacks, native Americans, citizen Hispanics all did roofing in the summer in Phoenix, Arizona...that was before illegals came in and undercut wages to the point the legal workers could not make a living. Joke is on the taxpayer- the illegals can’t make a living on the wages they work for either so they sign up for all the programs. You would be hard pressed now to find a citizen roofing in Phoenix in the summer.

[Liz]

The $82, 000 in govt freebies available---enumerated in post no. 76----does not stop vote-crazed pols from devising new ways to suckup for latino votes.

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Senator Harry Reid Supports Giving Illegal Aliens Tax Credits for Kids Not Even Living in US .....Townhall.com

U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, left, wants to end the practice of giving illegal immigrants tax credits for kids, but U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., won’t let the House-approved measure H.R. 556 through the Senate.

"The System is Working Fine" says Senator Harry Reid, even though the Joint Committee on Taxation calculates that enactment of H.R. 556 would save taxpayers $24.4 billion over the next decade.

“The IRS has been doling out the credit to tax filers claiming children who do not even live in the country,” Johnson charged.

Tax preparers agree that the system is broken — and that the IRS must fix it. They say the agency has to stop disbursing ACTC refunds based on Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, which are available to undocumented residents.

Tax preparers told Watchdog they have seen clients from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua claiming Mexican children as dependents.

A 2009 TIGTA audit concluded that the child tax credit “appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the U.S. without authorization, which contradicts Federal law and policy to remove such incentives.”

Johnson’s bill would impose a 10-year ban on tax filers who commit fraud and a $500 penalty on tax preparers who knowingly bilk taxpayers through the ACTC program.

Reid sad: “I just think the child tax credit is working just fine, and there’s no need to punish children,” the Democratic leader told the Associated Press in February.

---snip-- more on FR

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An anonymous Indiana tax consultant revealed that several returns filed by illegal aliens were successfully claiming ACTC tax refunds of as much as $1000 for as many as a dozen dependents. “Here’s a return right here: we’ve got a $10,300 refund for nine nieces and nephews,” he said. “We’re getting an $11,000 refund on this tax return. There’s seven nieces and nephews,” he added, pointing to another set of documents. “I can bring out stacks and stacks. It’s just so easy it’s ridiculous.”

A single illegal alien living at a southern Indiana home used by four more illegals who didn’t live there. Despite that reality, those workers claimed 20 children as dependents—and the IRS sent them checks totaling $29,608.

(snip) a single address in Atlanta, GA had 23,994 ITIN-related tax refunds sent to it. In another instance, 8,393 ITIN refunds were deposited into a single bank account. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58561

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ACTION NOW--CALL YOUR REP---The House repeatedly has passed an IRS bill that could save U.S. taxpayers up to $24.4 billion but Harry Reid’s Democratic Senate will not hear it. The Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act, or H.R. 556, would require tax filers to provide Social Security numbers to claim child tax credits.

Currently, the IRS allows undocumented residents to collect the $1,000 credits for dependents not even living in the country. Watchdog reported that illegal immigrants received $4.2 billion from the tax agency in just one year.

Though the GOP-controlled House has passed Rep Johnson’s measure three times, Senate Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., refuses to allow the bill to come up for a vote in his chamber.

[Liz]

Medicare paid millions to illegal immigrants, dead patients, probe finds
By Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times

Medicare paid $23 million for dead patients in 2011 and $29 million for drug benefits for illegal immigrants from 2009 to 2011, according to a report Thursday from the Health and Human Services inspector general.

The investigators said Medicare has safeguards to try to stop payments to dead patients, but it still ended up sending out the $23 million anyway.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — the same agency that is struggling to fix the broken Obamacare website — acknowledged the problems and said it will try to take steps to fix them.

“We agree that in cases where the information indicates an individual is not lawfully present in the United States, that individual should not be permitted to enroll or to remain enrolled in a Part D plan during the period where he or she is not eligible to receive federal benefits,” Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of CMS, said in response to the report about illegal immigrants getting benefits.

The payouts aren’t large — they amount to just a fraction of a percent of what Medicare pays each year in benefits. Still, the investigators said the agency should take steps to crack down.

In one of its reports the inspector general said 4,139 illegal immigrants were able to make 279,056 drug benefit claims.

The investigators said that while CMS has policies to prevent illegal immigrants from getting most Medicare benefits, it didn’t have such a policy for the prescription drug program, which was added under President George W. Bush and expanded by President Obama’s health law.

As for dead patients collecting benefits, the investigators said the problems were often related to missing or incorrect dates of death.

Dead doctors also were paid $25 million over a three-year period.

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (a doctor), said the report was worrying because CMS had been warned of the problems five years earlier.“Every individual wrongfully awarded benefits, be it the deceased or undocumented, diverts scarce resources away from those who need it most,” he said.

SOURCE http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/medicare-paid-millions-dead-patients-illegals/#ixzz2jK6Gu1dx