WORCESTER - A federal judge Monday sentenced a local woman to a year in jail and ordered her to forfeit $3.5 million and pay restitution in what lawyers said was the largest food stamp fraud case in Massachusetts history.
The Worcester Telegram story is pretty emblematic of the widespread level of fraud out there in the federal food stamp program, and as the left howled, probably why the Trump administration moved to change half the benefit from food stamp to food boxes.
Breitbart News, in its story titled "The Seven Biggest Takedowns of Food Stamp Fraud in 2017" notes that most of the miscreants caught were convenience store owners who bought food stamps at a discount for cash, say 50 cents on the dollar, and then got reimbursed by the government for the full cash-value amount.
Food stamp fraud costs a billion dollars a year and undoubtedly contributes to the opioid epidemic in run-down areas, where cashed-out food stamps go to the purchase of illegal drugs.
Food boxes replacing food stamps would end the problem right away.
If the storage and distribution of food boxes would add costs to the federal food stamp program, the billion-dollar fraud that we know about now would be cut to $500 million, a significant savings for the taxpayers.
For now, the status quo among the dishonest will remain: Why rob banks when you can make so much more stiffing the government through food stamp fraud? And the left will go on howling about how bad food boxes are.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/02/food_stamp_fraud_and_opioid_epidemic_the_other_reasons_to_go_to_food_boxes.html
The Worcester Telegram story is pretty emblematic of the widespread level of fraud out there in the federal food stamp program, and as the left howled, probably why the Trump administration moved to change half the benefit from food stamp to food boxes.
Breitbart News, in its story titled "The Seven Biggest Takedowns of Food Stamp Fraud in 2017" notes that most of the miscreants caught were convenience store owners who bought food stamps at a discount for cash, say 50 cents on the dollar, and then got reimbursed by the government for the full cash-value amount.
Food stamp fraud costs a billion dollars a year and undoubtedly contributes to the opioid epidemic in run-down areas, where cashed-out food stamps go to the purchase of illegal drugs.
Food boxes replacing food stamps would end the problem right away.
If the storage and distribution of food boxes would add costs to the federal food stamp program, the billion-dollar fraud that we know about now would be cut to $500 million, a significant savings for the taxpayers.
For now, the status quo among the dishonest will remain: Why rob banks when you can make so much more stiffing the government through food stamp fraud? And the left will go on howling about how bad food boxes are.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/02/food_stamp_fraud_and_opioid_epidemic_the_other_reasons_to_go_to_food_boxes.html
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