Sunday, July 21, 2013

Food Stamp Recipients Shipping Food Overseas

The New York Post reports that "food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout" and food stamp recipients are "using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic."

 

(NY Post) 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.

"Everybody does it," said a worker at an Associated Supermarket in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. "They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people pay with EBT."

Customers pay cash for the barrels, usually about $40, and typically ship them filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of rice, beans, pasta, canned milk and sausages.

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