RE: Children not getting breakfast
January 11, 2017 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2017 at 11:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 11, 2017 at 2:43 am)robvalue Wrote: That's one thing that always puzzles me. All the benefits people get "for their children" seem to be handed over in cash form. There is then no guarantee that it's actually being spent on them. It's apparently against their human rights or something to have vouchers so that they can't spend it on booze and fags.
IDK what the situation over in the UK is, but here, "for the children" money rarely makes it to children -or- their parents. It's far more likely to arrive in the hands of needy families as vouchers redeemable for specific products (WIC), a faux debit card...again redeemable for specific products (EBT), or subsidized housing. While it; not imposible to scam those systems by trading the products to a third party, welfare fraud is exceedingly rare and the rate at which offenders are caught (and then forced to repay in cash as though they'd gotten cash.....) is high, as is the rate of people worrying about it......because assholes use the idea to set poor people against poorer people.
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