Posted on 03/13/2017 1:38:38 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Welfare fraud is a bigger problem than liberals want you to believe.
Food Stamp benefits costed $74.1 billion in 2014 and supplied roughly 46.5 million Americans with benefits, which comes out to an average of $125.35 for each person per month in food assistance. Even a fraud rate of under 5% amounts to billions in wasted funds. The most popular method of food stamp fraud isn’t fraudulently claiming benefits, it’s recipients trading in their cards for a fraction of their face value for cash.
Luckily, the government has actually made some wise steps in counteracting that kind of fraud. Back in April, the USDA passed a rule that allows states the option to require SNAP recipients to make contact with the state when there have been an excessive number of requests for EBT card replacements in a year. Requesting excessive replacement cards can indicate that a client is exchanging SNAP cards for cash or other prohibited items.
On the other hand, it doesn’t take many people to do millions of dollars worth of damage when the system is abused in a major manner. In a recent story out of Baltimore, fourteen people were arrested in raids that related to a total of $16 million in food stamp fraud.
Walayat Khan, 36, of Reisterstown
Shaheen Tasewar Hussain, 60, of Ellicott City
Muhammad Rafiq, 58, of Reisterstown
Mohammad Shafiq, 50, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland; and his daughter,Alia Shaheen, 24, of Baltimore
Mohammad Irfan, 59, of Nottingham
Muhammad Sarmad, 40, of Nottingham
Kassem Mohammad Hafeed, a/k/a Kassam Mohammad Hafeed, 51, of Baltimore
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This is probably occurring over 1000 times in the US.
Add Medicaid fraud and there are billions being stolen
Pay people commissions to root out waste and fraud and turn it in.
I read, “FReeploaders”.
They get a choice. American jail or immediate deportation to the middle east sewer of our choosing with a permanent tattoo and biological marker preventing any possibility of return.
If they return or attempt to return, automatic life imprisonment with no possibility of parole.
When you take radical steps to deal with vermin, the rest hear about it and straighten up.
Could the Council of Arabic Islamic Relations step forward and promise the law of Sharia will cut off someones hand in this matter... please.
I stopped in to the Grocery Store last week on my way home to get my wife some diet coke, the 60ish yr old man in front of me, whipped out his EBT card to pay for the RibEye Steaks and some other stuff. He still needed about $5 for stuff NOT covered on his EBT, he pulled out a Wad of Cash in the THOUSANDS!!!
I know because I rarely go anywhere without at least $1000 Cash in my pocket. He had Plenty, WHY IS HE ON FOOD STAMPS???
Time to crack down and confiscate assets to pay back the stolen benefits
Let me guess. He got into an Escalade
If they return or attempt to return, automatic DEATH SENTENCE..................
Nope, 4 Wheel Drive, Extra Cab Dually, NEW!!!
and if they fail to hear the message, pour molten lead in their ears ...
Illegals are all over the welfare and food stamps through their anchor children.
Not only do they mostly pay no payroll taxes, but then taxpayers are left paying to raise illegals families.
They don’t report all the off the books working income at all.
Welfare needs to verify people are eventually working.
There should be a requirement that there is at least one legal parent over the anchor child before dropping a nickel of welfare on raising an illegal’s kids.
Nothing against them in general, but everything costs a lot and if they can’t even pay their own bills to live here, then they better go home. The anchor kids can stay with a legal relative or go home for a great life where ever their parents came from.
We are not supposed to harbor economic refugees.
This can All be fixed overnight by Abolishing the Program and setting up Soup Kitchens in every neighborhood.
14 with a common thread.
Probably paid for in cash.
I can buy that.
Wanna eat, go to the soup kitchen.
There is a ministry based in Pennsylvania that makes up non-perishable meals for use in disaster zones. They are bean and dried vegetable based. They mix it up into gallon bags. One bag can feed a family for a day. Boil it and eat.
Wanna be on welfare, that’s what you get. Nutritious and edible, if not even tasty.
Muslims are the worst because of their polygamy; they officially marry one but have children with more - all technically bastards that qualify for free sh!t.
Limit the free stuff down to enough for two kids and only allow for this two out of five years with benefits.
After two years, go with Allah.
Why waste the money? Throw them to some hungry hogs.
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