Last week Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced that some state residents have been withdrawing welfare money from ATMs located in liquor stores and other restricted places. The revelations come at a time when states across the country are trying to comply with a 2012 federal law that restricts how welfare recipients spend public money through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Maine Struggles With Welfare Misuse At ATMs
As states work to comply with new federal welfare rules that restrict recipients from withdrawing cash benefits from liquor stores, reports released by Maine's Department of Health and Human Services show some doing just that.
Last week Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced that some state residents have been withdrawing welfare money from ATMs located in liquor stores and other restricted places. The revelations come at a time when states across the country are trying to comply with a 2012 federal law that restricts how welfare recipients spend public money through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
Last week Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced that some state residents have been withdrawing welfare money from ATMs located in liquor stores and other restricted places. The revelations come at a time when states across the country are trying to comply with a 2012 federal law that restricts how welfare recipients spend public money through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
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They shouldn't allow cash withdrawals at all. Every transaction should be reviewed...if they're buying Anything other than basic subsistence foods (no pizza, beer, cigs!) should result in being removed from the program permanently!
So, they will just go to the store next to the liquor store and go back to the liquor to buy it. Those cards should only be allowed to be used for necessities and that's it. That is the only way they are going to get any kind of control.... OR BETTER YET FORCE THEM TO GET A DAMN JOB BY CUTTING THEM OFF!!!
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