NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti
By KATE BRIQUELET and ISABEL VINCENT
Last Updated: 6:13 AM, July 21, 2013
Posted: 12:34 AM, July 21, 2013
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.
The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.
The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans.
https://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/it_on_y22owkLpsldSAjDVC9isjM
Assuming this is accurate how would you police something like this?
This is how you could start and it will probably give many Americans jobs they would have to log or exports out from this country and cross-reference it into a computer and see if the welfare recipient shipping the cargo is receiving any benefits It’s time-consuming but trust me it wouldn’t cost as much as people probably would think and I’m sorry but if it’s well-known those countries are using government Funded money than they should pay extra High rates to ship any cargo that is not commercial And also keep an eye on well-known supermarkets some type of a program that keeps track of spending remember that’s our money they should be nosy as they want to be if you don’t like it then you don’t need it by It’s a start but something somewhere down the line because it’s not only with the food but it’s also with the rent and many other programs that come straight out of Americans Pockets I think Uncle Sam did enough and would make them way more scared losing what they don’t need because they’re so greedy if you don’t need it you shouldn’t use it it’s a program that was intended for people who really need it that’s a damn shame these people exploit so many weaknesses and take it vantage of it And we know it and do absolutely nothing about it this is why they continue doing it who is the idiot 😔
that’s a damn shame bleeding this country dry we have to pay for their rent then they get to have all the children they want then they take the money that is given to them for food and ship it back to the country meanwhile we are struggling here ourselves and don’t qualify way to go America🫡👏👎