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NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in J
« on: July 21, 2013, 05:38:40 PM »
NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/it_on_y22owkLpsldSAjDVC9isjM

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Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.

The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.

Using food stamps to buy food and ship to the Caribbean. Really stupid, when it is meant to help people.  :mental:
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Re: NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in J
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2013, 06:10:34 PM »
So foodstamps are easily susceptible to fraud, and are given to people who don't need them as a means to buy their votes.
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