Saturday, October 10, 2009

Food stamps and fraud

It is not like this is the only one. I'll bet that I could find a dozen places that would do this in a single day. And here in the South it is pretty easy to find alternate sources of food so that your Food Stamp card can be used for many things other than food.

At one time there was a lively underground dealing with buying and selling food stamps. Even if you did not need the stamps you would file to get them. Once you were receiving them you could then barter them on the blackmarket for cash. The going rate was 50 to 80 cents on the dollar.

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