Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI

[Lee-Lee]

39. The are I worked as a deputy saw lots of abuse too

There were the various things with SNAP:

Sell your card, then after giving the buyer some time to use it report it lost/stolen. Of course it was always used at the place with no video cameras and the clerks who can't ever seem to remember what the person looked like. They put an end to that at least partially by putting in rules about the max number of replacement cards they would issue in a year, before than some people would call us to report a "missing card" every month like clockwork, because they needed a police report for a new one.

Buy a whole cart of canned soft drinks, then immediately resell them at .35 on the dollar to a shady convenience store or restaurant. If you have ever been in a small restaurant and they old served canned soft drinks there is a strong chance that is what is going on.

Hiding of assets- car, home, etc all in other names of family, of a couple living together who kept different address on their legal documents so that more benefits could be applied for. I ran in to the latter way, way more often than you would think when I had to work with serving papers or doing evictions to DV work.

Probably the most frustrating part of it was that these folks who wanted to abuse it knew the system so well they could always find a way, but if you took a person really down on their luck in for help if they didn't answer every question right or work the system just right they couldn't get help, while the abusers used it all up. And when I or other deputies would report suspected abusers to the caseworkers they would not care at all- they would look and make sure their paperwork was in order so they didn't get in trouble and past that always said "we need more proof than just hearsay" even after things like us just finding the single mom who said she lived alone with her boyfriend residing in the subsidized trailer and doing criminal activities.