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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his administration took steps late Wednesday to strip food stamp benefits from those who loaded up their shopping carts knowing they had insufficient funds in their Electronic Benefits Transfer accounts during the system failure in October.
As a result of the temporary outage, over 12,000 transactions showed non-sufficient funds once it got back online and retailers were able to process the purchases, according to The Advocate.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11...ose-benefits-over-wal-mart-free-for-all-86692
As someone who collects food stamps-- and needs them to survive-- this absolutely sickens me and I think it's a goddamned shame that criminal charges are not being pursued.
Wow. Impressive move, Jindal. Good for you.
But hold on to your hat. You're about to get accused of everything in the book.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11...ose-benefits-over-wal-mart-free-for-all-86692
As someone who collects food stamps-- and needs them to survive-- this absolutely sickens me and I think it's a goddamned shame that criminal charges are not being pursued.
Unfortunately, it was the retailer's fault for allowing it to happen. I think it would be a hard sell criminally since the retailers are the ones that overrode the protocols designed to protect them, and based upon what I have seen from some of it, there is no way you could convince me that the retailers did not know exactly what was going on.
So... you're thinking they were angling for the government to cover them on sales they knew were fraudulent, too? I can see it.
Why?
Too severe?
Not severe enough?
Just about right?
In Springhill, police detained a woman who pushed a cart with $700 in groceries up to a cash register despite having less than 50 cents on her food stamp card. Wal-Mart instructed police to release the woman without citing her.
Yes that is exactly what I think they were doing. Stores in my area posted the "EBT SYSTEM IS DOWN!!!!" signs and lost nothing.
Why?
Too severe?
Not severe enough?
Just about right?
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11...ose-benefits-over-wal-mart-free-for-all-86692
As someone who collects food stamps-- and needs them to survive-- this absolutely sickens me and I think it's a goddamned shame that criminal charges are not being pursued.
$700 worth of groceries, seriously lady?!? The absolute nerve of some people.
Punishing the innocent little children because mommy was a greedy moron.
Dishonesty is dishonesty. How about all the poor people who didn't get an extra $700?
There's an emergency protocol in place where they're supposed to limit EBT transactions to $50 while the system is down. Strikes me as perfectly reasonable.
Stopping sales entirely while the system is down means people like me can't eat.
There's an emergency protocol in place where they're supposed to limit EBT transactions to $50 while the system is down. Strikes me as perfectly reasonable.
Stopping sales entirely while the system is down means people like me can't eat.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/11...ose-benefits-over-wal-mart-free-for-all-86692
As someone who collects food stamps-- and needs them to survive-- this absolutely sickens me and I think it's a goddamned shame that criminal charges are not being pursued.
Yes, the WalMart managers who signed off on this should go to jail for defrauding the taxpayers.
Punishing the innocent little children because mommy was a greedy moron.
What about them? Should they have all done that?
Why? Taxpayers didn't pay a dime.
I don't think that they are going after people just because they went over their limit a few dollars.Well, I've tried to give this some thought. Im not at all anti-welfare and if anything is troubling me, it's the apparent increase in people that are not doing well.
The topic appears to be that the people who egregiously and knowingly and deliberately took advantage of a technical flaw. I'm sure many people did NOT do that. It's similar to those cases where a bank inadvertently deposits funds in your account that are obviously above reasonable expectation. If you go over a few dollars, that might be normal but if you quickly withdraw substantial excess, you will be charged with a crime. Just because I lost my wallet doesn't entitle you to take the contents.
So, these people (presumably) stole - and they shouldn't reap rewards for their conduct. Hopefully, they bought necessities and the children will be able to eat canned chili.
I don't think that they are going after people just because they went over their limit a few dollars.
They want to punish the people who were loaning out their cards. That kind of thing.
That is also my assumption. I'd hope that any PLAUSIBLE excess would be forgiven. But if they went hundreds over, that is knowingly wrong. Should be easy to tell the good from the bad.
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