Comments on: Cantonment Woman Charged With Food Stamp, Medicaid Fraud

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 19 May 2015 01:38:01 +0000

It did not say 80k a year, it said “a household member gross $80,350 while benefits were received from August 2010 to December 2012″ I think the real point is she lied. He does not matter how much money the person in the household received but they lied about the money coming into the home.

By: blues

blues — Mon, 18 May 2015 20:51:02 +0000

Diamond, that’s 80k per year. 2010 to 2012 is not 4 years sweetheart.

By: just a thought

just a thought — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:58:07 +0000

Mot that I am saying she did the right thing not reporting the income, but just run the numbers yourself in this particular case. Between August 2010 and December 2012 the income was $1,545.20 a month. After rent and utilities and gas to and from work,not to mention the non food necessities like toilet paper, soap,shampoo, etc. that doesn’t leave a lot for food. And yes, you can survive,but have you been to the grocery store lately and tried to feed and clothe kids, and ,oh yes, I forgot about the kids going to school. Have you paid any of those fees lately? The benefits she received was $229 a month. Again, she was wrong for not reporting the income, but let the numbers speak for themselves before we start wishing we were in her shoes.
Just saying.

By: educator

educator — Mon, 18 May 2015 13:56:33 +0000

You know cheese, juice, rice and potatoes and beans make such a healthy meal. The person that said that we should just hive people that does not know anything about nutrition. I would like them to eat just that for 365 days.
I hear people hear talk about people on ebt driving expensive card and wearing expensive clothes not thinking that they maybe borrowing someone’s car or that the person might have saved up a year for a outfit to go on a job interview.

I am on EBT. I have a job that just barely covers bills (electric, water, and rent. People out there will say well get a better job. Not so easy.

Yes this woman was in the wrong and there are others like her but please do not group everyone that receives EBT in the same category. There are a lot of us that are hard working people that are trying to take care of our families.

By: emschick

emschick — Sun, 17 May 2015 06:02:54 +0000

“hard to trade peanut butter and flour for drugs and booze”

It isn’t as hard as you’d think it is to exchange cheese,fruit juice,etc for drugs. Tide laundry soap,baby formula,etc are now being exchanged for drugs instead of money. Where there is a will there’s a way. If people want drugs they’ll figure out a way to get it.But I do agree that they should go back to the days of commodities. It would save lots of federal money doing it that way.

By: David

David — Sat, 16 May 2015 23:09:58 +0000

To Darla—damned right on the mark
It was called commodities each month to pick up downtown
Hard to trade peanut butter and flour for drugs and booze

By: Darla Coburn

Darla Coburn — Sat, 16 May 2015 15:30:49 +0000

I do have a suggestion.
Discontinue the EBT card system and go back to giving cheese, fruit juice, rice, potatoes etc. Not to mention these are healthier choices. We are still fighting childhood obesity, right? Michelle Obama should totally support this idea:)
I’m not the sharpest pencil but I do remember less obesity back during those days.

By: diamond

diamond — Sat, 16 May 2015 03:26:24 +0000

come on now people we don’t know this lady circumstance. we don’t know if this other person was helping her or hindering her. either was she has people or kid that had to be feed. let us remember judge not that we may be judged. we all had indiscretion we just know hers. I’m not faulting her. because it’s called survival. and if she love the ones she feel. I comend her for doing what she could to keep one child from being hungry

By: diamond

diamond — Sat, 16 May 2015 03:16:55 +0000

please we all are human we do things and call it survival. we know not her situation or cause. let us judge not that we make be judged on our own indiscretion. could it be who ever lived with her did what they wanted with there money. and she still had mouths to feed. and 80,000 dollars is not that much money in four years do the math.

By: SMH

SMH — Fri, 15 May 2015 21:47:33 +0000

You know, when I’m in a store, I just don’t get close enough to the people in front of me to see if they’re using an EBT card. Even if they were to be using one, I don’t spend time looking at their vehicles or their groceries and making judgments.

Of course, I don’t drive a Maserati and collect government assistance, either. Being on government assistance should be temporary, not a lifestyle.

Both are wrong.

Y’all be nice to each other and try to do the right thing, a’ight?