My SIL uses her food stamps to buy tuna for her 3 cats rather than paying cash for cat food, thus allowing her to have some extra money for (expensive) cosmetics and vodka.
She collected food stamps based on having her (lazy) daughter living there. She continued to collect the higher amound for nearly a year after the girl left. And suffered no penalty for failing to report it.
How many people getting food stamps have you known that *don’t* smoke cigarettes and own pets?
Oh, and after their food purchase was rung up, they paid cash for a carton of cigarettes :-(
I have a former friend, much like your sister in law.
She was rather proud that she was able to game various public assistance programs to the point of having more than double my own annual income, acquired through honest work.
She thinks I am stupid, for paying my own way through life.
I think she is a filthy criminal, and I cut off all contact with her.
BTW, she was born and raised in a white, upper middle class “union/Democrat Party” family.
She just refuses to work for a living, since it is so much smarter to game government assistance instead.
Why do we not demand a more active and robust Fraud, Waste, and Abuse agency, and pull the funds to pay for it from those currently going to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and PBS?
“How many people getting food stamps have you known that *don’t* smoke cigarettes and own pets?”
Me for one. I’m on them (since August 2010) and I don’t smoke or own pets.