The lady who drove a Mercedes to pick up food vouchers.

[Heywood]

And, I do absolutely agree with the idea of a guaranteed minimum income, because who deserves to have basic necessities is not a question we have the luxury of asking when we clearly have enough for everybody.

Just for the record I don't think the amount of the universal basic income should be predicated on what people need, but rather on what the government can afford. People might still need to work or starve/freeze. You can't tax too much lest you disincentive production.

Now what that amount of basic income is.....I don't know....I'd have to give it a lot more thought. I do think it wouldn't be very long at all before most people could live quite well off universal basic income. Automation is coming faster and faster. I have this opinion that the easier it is to produce wealth via automation the more you can tax it while only minimally disincentizing production.

Since the universal basic income would replace social security I would look there as a starting point. Retires should not see a drop in income because of the implementation of a universal basic income.

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The fair market value of a car over $4650 is counted toward your resources in determining SNAP eligibility.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/facts-about-snap

You should have kept reading. No..no, scratch that - it's directly above the portion you quoted. If you have two cars, and only one person in the household - yeah, you might have to sell one. Then you can reapply, immediately. Or, you can -try- to sell it, and determine that you are unable to get anything for it, for whatever reason.

Licensed vehicles are NOT counted if they are:

used for income-producing purposes,
annually producing income consistent with their fair market value,
needed for long distance travel for work (other than daily commute),
used as the home,
needed to transport a physically disabled household member,
needed to carry most of the household's fuel or water, or
if the household has little equity in the vehicle (because of money owed on the vehicle, it would bring no more than $1,500 if sold).

Remember, assistance is a vehicle - and they want as many people as possible to qualify for that vehicle. That's how they make the case for additional funds. The wife and I both have nice cars, and we had to climb back over $55k(ish..don't quote me on the pennies) a year before we lost our benefits.

the household in question only had one person working(actually receiving some sort of maternity benefits). They had two cars....they would have had to sell one of them.