For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it.
The retired assistant case manager, Craig McNees, was in charge of vetting food-stamp applicants in north Florida and Indiana in the ’80s and says the program was infested with fraud and corruption that was perpetually ignored by management. “Illegals would come in by the vanload and we were told to give them their stuff,” McNees said. “Management knew very well they were illegal. It was so rampant that some employees would tell their illegal relatives to come get food stamps.”
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The retired case worker who contacted JW says in the three years he worked in a Sarasota food-stamp office, he found more than 500 cases of fraud but management ignored them all instead pushing a yearly quota. “They just said that if we don’t give out as many as last year, we don’t get our money,” McNees said. “It was crazy, like a three-ring circus; like the inmates were running the asylum.”
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3 comments:
Let me tell you my story. I am a mother of a large family. My husband lost his job in the winter, and has yet to find one to replace it. He's still looking. So, we applied for food stamps, and got them. In addition to his unemployment, we got a bit over 550 a month to feed our large family. Not a lot, but it helped. I found a small job to help pay for some medical bills we now get to cover. I made exaclty 420 last month. enough to cover most of that bill. Now we learn that we 'make too much' because I was employed! We now have LOST our Snap, and the low paying job I had, was the cause of it! Seriously? We don't want to be on this forever, just until our HoH can find a job. Now we've lost it, because I made 420 dollars last month at a very part time job. If were were a mexican or black family, I'm sure our story would be different. But alas, we are white, and vote GOP.
Anon, I hope your husband finds work and things get back to normal again for you and your family.
This is what's wrong with the system. The folks who put into it (Taxes, SS) over the years get screwed when they need a little help until back on their feet.
NO NON-CITIZEN should get any type of relief until they are
1. citizens themselves
2. Have worked previously for at least 1 year straight.
There are some families that are generationally GLUED to public assistance programs and THIS needs to stop as well.
I know that feeling we had our granchildren as foster kids and we were expected to pay for everything while their mother reaped benefits and we got farther in the hole financially as my husband and I live on a very fixed income medical issues being the reason
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