Lawmakers Find $21 a Week Doesn't Buy a Lot of Groceries

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Kevin

It does happen though.



I'm assuming that they're going to use that food stamp money in conjunction with their social security benefits. So yeah, the minimum works for me. For anything above poverty, it's their responsibility to save for retirement, not mine to pay for it.



Again, not my problem. Also, clearly, the elderly you were dealing with were living somewhere and not starving to death.



You'd have probably qualified for TANF. I looked over the requirements, they must have determined that you had sufficient resources to not require food stamps. From the literature I found, $2,000 in "household resources" or above cuts you out of TANF/food stamps.



Food stamps were meant to keep people from starving. Apparently, you nor your child starved.



Well, those sorts of things sort of exist. There are tricks, however, to reset the clock. TANF, I believe has a three year limit if you have less than a HS education and less than 6 months of work experience, only one of course if you're college educated. A lot of people fill out applications and occasionally take jobs at places only to quit and have their clocks reset.

Welfare should be a hand up, not a way of life as it has become for so many.

And Keving you know as well as I do a college education doesn't guarantee you a job to put you in a lifestyle where you wouldn't have to worry.

And with the amount of kids graduating now already in debt with staggering student loans, 1/2 of thier paycheck from the first post grad job, may very well have them running out to go get them stamps and stay on that ramen noodle diet for a little longer.