. . . the President said “The wall is getting designed right now. A lot of people say, oh, oh, Trump was only kidding with the wall. I wasn’t kidding. I don’t kid. I don’t kid.”

If he hadn’t pissed off China, he could have had it made there and shipped over. I’m beginning to think he’s bad at the business.

No, it’s not fraud and due to cigarettes being an addiction, it was considered an item that a person is allowed to purchase from any benefits that they receive to cover non-food items.

I’m only responding to this to inform you that on those cards, the SNAP benefits and the minimal cash benefits are both there. So, they have the budgeted amount that falls under SNAP and they may have another $100 that is considered cash which allows them to purchase non-food items, like toilet paper, household goods…

That cart full of steaks and seafood still doesn’t qualify as “abuse” as you have no idea how many people that food is going to! They are allowed to feed their entire family, you know. Or, do you now want to limit what kind of food they are allowed to eat from every angle you can think of?

It’s not going to happen because it doesn’t really exist. Literally every abuse anecdote sounds exactly the same. “Blah blah I saw this welfare queen in the store with an iphone and she bought steak and seafood and soda and candy and crack and beer and then she got into her lexus and drove away”. Please. It’s a meme…

I was a cashier in Appalachia for six years and I never saw SNAP fraud. If it’s really happening at the rate some commenters say it is, surely they have ample opportunity to look up how to report fraud and start doing so. But something tells me it’s not.

You can buy seeds for your garden too with SNAP. Had a retired gentleman’s eyes light up because he always wanted to make a garden, printed him off some brochures about gardening specific to our area.

I work at Texas HHSC, so I approve a lot of SNAP cases (TANF and Medicaid too, for that matter). I’ve got a couple myths I’d also like to add to the pile (with the caveat that I’m in Texas, so rules may vary from state to state):

I’m pretty sure this is a bullshit Urban Legend that you confabulated into thinking that it was actually you who saw this and not a friend of a friend; but I’ll bite to give you an explanation.

The MAXIMUM you get in SNAP is about $190 a month which works out to about $2 per meal. Yes, you CAN spend it on steaks and…

For someone that seems so passionate about apparent rampant abuse, why did you not take action to stop it?

I know this for a fact, not one instance but many.

is meanwhile paying for their lexus/tahoe.

You mean putting herself through Purdue and graduating with honors? Or do you mean marrying and having children with someone who made a huge mistake (DUI accident) and decided to make it worse by running from the police?

Yes

Cite your reference or you are full of shit.

My sample size was small, but what I saw was more abuse than not, and damn if it wasn’t frustrating to see.

The real problem is that is used to be embarrassing to have to have food stamps for more people than not.

So I read “hot foods” as spicy hot, I’m an idiot and thank you for posting this so I could know the difference lol

I love the “morality” of judging people who need assistance. What the hell is wrong with our country where being poor is considered a moral failing? You know what should be a moral failing? Walmart paying people so little that they need SNAP just to survive: http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2011/bigbox_livingwage_po…