A young Michigan woman who recently won $1 million in the state lottery is causing national outrage today as she refuses to stop using her electronic food-stamp card.
Amanda Clayton, 24, of Detroit was interviewed by WDIV-TV after the NBC affiliate was tipped off by an upset taxpayer that the jackpot winner was still receiving taxpayer assistance for food.
“People are about to lose their unemployment and these welfare recipients are spending our tax dollars foolishly,” the viewer wrote the station. “Please do a story on lottery winners on welfare.”
The station tracked Clayton down as she was moving to a new house which she had just purchased in cash with her winnings.
When confronted, the woman said she didn’t think she was doing anything wrong.
“I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn’t, I thought maybe it was okay because I’m not working,” Clayton said.
She told the station that she actually didn’t receive the full million dollars, since she accepted a lump sum of $700,000, and after taxes her winnings were just over half a million.
Nevertheless, Clayton believes she still has a right to receive $200 a month from taxpayers.
“I feel that it’s OK because, I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay,” she said. “I have two houses.”
9 comments:
Oh what a warped mind!
You can"t even make this up..... wow
Solution: Sell a house, that will drop utilities, taxes, and put money in the bank & yes, take her of the welfare system ASAP. This does not take a rocket scientist
thats wonderful liberal entitlement there.
Government agencies can't even coordinate between the lottery agency and the food stamp agency. Any you think the government can handle your health care?
Well said 12:01. It's just another example of the sense of entitlement that the younger generation has. So Scary.
Well I'm not working either....because I'm retired and had enough sense to save money for later in life. Should I get food stamps, too? Bill Gates isn't working, either. Should he get food stamps?
This is no different than the super rich do.As she stated she has no income to tax so she is entitled to them.
But, she call her social worker & report the sudden income? Bet she didn't. Sounds like someone needs to call the state food stamp fraud line.
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