Long story short is that I beat them on the unemployment case but still couldn't get off food stamps unless I proved my ineligibility with documented income. Not long after Trump was elected, I got my first job interview, then another and another. Less than a month after he was sworn into office, I was working full time, so the unemployment went away with a simple on-line filing.
The food stamps were another matter. I could have just kept my mouth shut and I'd still be collecting them, but after getting my first paychecks and filing their forms, the EBT card load was still coming, so I called again.
They finally had to change my records from "not qualified for benefits" to "declined benefits" to get them stopped. I called back and offered to refund the month after I had started full time employment. The case worker thanked me for my honesty but told me not to even go there. It would cause them more complications and maybe make it difficult for me to ever get benefits in the future if I ever needed them. I kid you not.
I'm guessing that was her polite way of telling me I would be blackballed as a conservative.
We don’t have that problem here. They’ll cut you off in a heartbeat and then collect whatever was overpaid. I have a friend who works in the collections department of our welfare department. That’s all she does.
Some “Social Worker” got ahold of my Elderly Father and signed him up for Food Stamps.
I was visiting him and saw a Letter from the County letting him know that he qualified for Food tamp Assistance, $15 a Month. Yes, $15 a Month.
He had no idea he had been signed up for it.
I must have sent in a half dozen Forms trying to cancel it. What a waste of time and Government inefficiency.