A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation into possible fraud in the state's FoodShare benefits program found that some people are illegally buying and selling food stamps on Facebook.
The newspaper reported Sunday that it found nine Facebook users in Milwaukee and about 70 users nationwide had posted to Facebook to either buy or sell food assistance benefits illegally -- or to help others do so.
State Department of Health Services spokeswoman Beth Kaplan acknowledges social networks could be used to scam the program. She says the department would refer suspected criminal activity to authorities.
Gov. Scott Walker's commission on fraud and government waste is looking at FoodShare fraud for a report due later this summer.
Wisconsin's $1 billion a year FoodShare program is run by the state and counties with federal money.
Chesseheads are so stupid they don't know how to send a private message? lol
ReplyDeleteSurprise, surprise, abuse of government money. When will we ever learn. Let's just raise that debt limit and keep up the waste, fraud, and abuse. We will fall like the Roman empire and it probably will not be that much longer before it happens.
ReplyDeleteold news for here,
ReplyDeletethose people will happily give up $15 free food for a pack of Newports,
and then let their kids live off $1 store foods
I though food stamps were a thing of the past since they came out with the dependance card.
ReplyDeleteIt happens all the time. An Independence Card user wanting to sell food stamps simply collects some cash in trade for use of a certain amount on the card. Generations and the generations of government recipients have learned to play the system like a fine instrument. It just becomes a way of life.
ReplyDeleteGee what a surprize, next thing they'll tell us that there are government workers sleeping on the job.
ReplyDeleteWhen is the government going to learn to stop handing out food stamps to EVERYONE! Good god people need to get off their asses and work. I do it so apparently it can be done.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, what the heck is wrong with those 10 million people sitting on their butts.