Goverment Aid- Does it always come with a new $40,000 vehicle?

Question

Is anyone else out there tired of driving by Sec 8 housing and seeing all of those new vehicles in the parking lots? Have you ever been behind someone on food stamps in the grocery store and think to yourself, wow, they eat better than I do, and I work for my money?

I understand that everyone, and I mean everyone needs help every now and then but there has to be a cap, doesn't there?

Answer 1

I had an internship this past spring working for an agency that whose office was in the county DCFS building and we worked specifically with TANF clients. I was amazed at the amount of fraud which takes place everyday. Even more disturbing is the fact that the caseworkers know about it and turn a blind eye to it. Furthermore it is a disgrace to see people who are there looking for help, not a lifestyle, be denied because their "resources" are a couple of dollars over the income limits. Until those in positions of power within the system crack down on the abusers and those who view public assistance as a career choice, the people who truly need the help will continue to fall by the wayside.

Answer 2

Of course the liberal answer to this is that we need more, as in more bureaucracy,more staff spending more money in order to be able to discover the massive fraud that takes place. Of course by the time they were done adding the staff necessary to find all the fraud they would end up costing us more than the fraud did. Sort of like what they do with the schools,the schools suck and people graduating from High School can't even read at grade level. So they triple your property taxes to get more money for the schools,most of which goes into administrative costs. So the superintendent and the principals get huge pay raises and bigger expense accounts,meanwhile the schools still suck,and the graduates still are far behind the level of knowledge they should have. So next year they ask for more,it's a vicious cycle that never ends. And the same is how they deal with public assistance, so they get bigger staffs and more funding to find those who are taking advantage of the system,but most of that money goes into pay raises and expense accounts,in the long run we all lose. And that doesn't even take into account the pure incompetence of many. Such as in Texas where the offices involved with public assistance estimates that around a third of their money goes to illegal aliens,yet you know what they still are not allowed to do in many Texas cities? Check the immigration/citizenship status of applicants,this is their rule made by them,total incompetence.

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Answer 3

All they have to do is buy their moneys worth in groceries with their EBT card and sell the groceries to someone, then go blow their money on crack or the new air Jordans. Most of those welfare recipients and/or section 8 housing dwellers, dress nicer than most upper middle class people I see.

It should all be left up to churches and charities to help the downtrodden, not the tax payers, whom have no control over who qualifies for the hand out.

Answer 4

Most of the things i have witnesses as you desribe, are drug dealers, that are criminals anyway, taking advantage of a good thing.
If the offices that provide welfare had enough staffing to be able to validate all the claims on welfare applications, most of those people wouldn't get it. Unfortunately, they don't have the staffing or the funds to do so.

I have even witnessed people working making a decent wage exploiting the system by the husband claiming to live with his folks, so both him and his wife could claim welfare independantly of one another. each of them where claiming 2 of their four children, and both had full time jobs.
i can tell you they are no longer doing so after a quick call to the government benefits fraud hotline.

If you see it occuring, pcik up the phone. If you allow them to continue to defraud the government, you are just as guilty as the people cashing the check.

Answer 5

Government Aid cannot be perfect. If they give money to people to pay bills and they decide to live in the slums but have a nice car, its their own punishment in a way.

We can give Aid, but not common sense, but just because this happens doesn't mean we should take the Aid away for honest citizens who are having difficulty.

Answer 6

Seen it many times not just with our own citizens but many countries in this world get money from us and you should see how they spent it

Answer 7

Excellent question.

I was floored at how many people were against the bankruptcy reform....we know a couple who filed a few years ago, but she kept her Mercedes convertible and just got a boob job. Pretty pathetic, isn't it??