Democrats in a House agriculture subcommittee lashed out at a retired millionaire who applied for and received food stamps in an effort to prove that eligibility for the government benefits in his home state of Minnesota were too lax and could be easily exploited.
Rob Undersander noticed several years back that income was the only criterion for receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps.
A retired engineer with a seven-figure nest egg but no real income, Undersander decided to perform an experiment to determine if someone as well-off as he and his wife could obtain the benefits.
"I've got the [SNAP] form in my hand and I'm thinking of my financial situation, and I said ‘you know, I just can't believe this,'" Undersander told the Washington Free Beacon by phone earlier this week. "So I went down to the second floor of the Sterns County Courthouse, stood in line a little bit, handed in the application and three weeks later I'm getting food stamps, a balance on my EBT card."
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6 comments:
This is what people like drug dealers who receive cash and report no income they qualify for all benefits while people with paychecks don’t but need them.
No work no food! Let the lazy asses starve.
Another corrupt govt program.
Hey Joe, I got to read first part of this, but guess didn't like what was in second part. They shut me out.
Me too. I googled "Rob Undersander noticed several years back" and it'll be the first article that comes up.
The "more" link has been fixed. Thanks for letting us know
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