Firenze Sage: Food Stamps everyone? (jail inmates, lottery winners and govt workers manage to get Food Stamps…)

Letâ€s review just a few of the fraudulent food stamp events that have been uncovered recently.

In the Polk County, Iowa jail 30 percent of inmates were collecting food stamps that were being mailed to their non-jailing addresses. These prisoners are exempt from prosecution because the food stamp form failed to ask if they were in the slammer.

Last December two veteran employees for New York Cityâ€s Human Resource Administration were busted for concocting 1,500 fake food stamp cases that netted them 8 million dollars.

The food stamp poster boy for the year is 50 year old Leroy Fick. Mr. Fick won the Michigan lottery and collected two million smackeroos. Why is he continuing to receive and cash in food stamps?

Get this – the Michigan Department of Human Services ruled that if he had elected monthly payments, that would be income but by choosing a lump sum payment the winnings were considered assets and arenâ€t counted in determining food stamp eligibility.
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Here it is again: you can never be fired for following the regulations.

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