Welfare Recipients Take Out Cash At Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores, X-Rated Shops

[The Shadow]

Welfare Recipients Take Out Cash At Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores, X-Rated Shops

They’re on the dole — and watching the pole.

Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.

A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.

[Sprightly]

Welfare Recipients Take Out Cash At Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores, X-Rated Shops

That's because there are no ATMs, drugstores or grocery stores in their neighborhoods.

[jessup270]

This is old news.

California reported on similar problems in 2010:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct...lfare-20101004

In today's technology, it should be simple to code welfare cards not to work in casinos, bars, cruise ships, liquor stores and so forth.

Politicians just chose to ignore the issue.

[flyboy56]

I knew someone who was usually asked if he wanted cash back when he used his food "stamp" card.

[Joy in Mudville]

While I don't approve of this let's have some perspective. The article said there have been dozens of withdraws. I mean, we might be talking about 30 or 40 grand here.

[Jeebus]

While I don't approve of this let's have some perspective. The article said there have been dozens of withdraws. I mean, we might be talking about 30 or 40 grand here.

So how much misappropriation of taxpayer dollars is OK with you?

Obviously your "threshold" of tolerating these welfare abusers has not been reached.

[Joy in Mudville]

So how much misappropriation of taxpayer dollars is OK with you?

Obviously your "threshold" of tolerating these welfare abusers has not been reached.

Again, perspective. Did I say that nothing should be done about it? No. But we're talking about dozens of instances where people have used these funds inappropriately. This is not some sort of rampaging problem even though I am sure there are posters here who want to believe that everyone on welfare is abusing the system.

[TheResearcher]

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion...mess_dirty_rag

"Those 19,000 MIA’s collect — based on an average of $400 a month — $91 million a year. That’s the estimate of Rep. Shauna O’Connell (R-Taunton). But the governor Friday went into his best pooh-pooh mode.

“That may not be indicative of a problem,” he said with a straight face. “We’ll know when we do the scrubbing.”"

[Jim F]

" EBT has many benefits!

* Replaces paper food stamps and checks
* Safer and more secure than carrying cash or checks
* Faster payment
* Convenient and easy to use

WIC EBT

* Replaces paper coupons
* You don’t have to purchase all of your WIC food benefits at one time
* The receipt given at the end of shopping shows your remaining WIC food benefit balance. "

https://www.ebt.acs-inc.com/

[musicmd]

Welfare Recipients Take Out Cash At Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores, X-Rated Shops

So what, a ATM is an ATM

[dialtone]

So what, a ATM is an ATM

So what! They should take it out at an ATM of a bank and THEN spend it at the bar, strip club or porn store

[BlandFood]

So what! They should take it out at an ATM of a bank and THEN spend it at the bar, strip club or porn store

Maybe they shouldn't be getting it unless it was for food or lodging?

[Omaha Beach]

Maybe they shouldn't be getting it unless it was for food or lodging?

Watch out here it comes: you mean spirited tea bagging wepublican and probably a raschist too!

[Joy in Mudville]

So what! They should take it out at an ATM of a bank and THEN spend it at the bar, strip club or porn store

Now that is stimulating the economy.

[songfourone]

I wonder what the corporation welfare recipients are spending their handouts on?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1912835.html

[musicmd]

So what! They should take it out at an ATM of a bank and THEN spend it at the bar, strip club or porn store

You have a valid point because a slap dance in a drink could bankrupt you,

[musicmd]

I wonder what the corporation welfare recipients are spending their handouts on?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1912835.html

Free trips to lass Vegas, whores, booze, and gambling , at the tax payer’s expense.

[Gopher]

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion...mess_dirty_rag

"Those 19,000 MIA’s collect — based on an average of $400 a month — $91 million a year. That’s the estimate of Rep. Shauna O’Connell (R-Taunton). But the governor Friday went into his best pooh-pooh mode.

“That may not be indicative of a problem,” he said with a straight face. “We’ll know when we do the scrubbing.”"

Interesting. It is estimated that the State of Massachusetts hands out $91 million a year to individuals they can't identify or locate. Nice. Seems like an easy problem to fix if the will exists to do so.

My favorite was the fare jumpers with welfare cards from both New York and New Jersey. I wonder if anyone was charged with fraud.

[bmore_ken]

Free trips to lass Vegas, whores, booze, and gambling , at the tax payer’s expense.

Bingo!!!!

[Jim F]

Here's some more bingo:

" GSA Scandal: So What Does $823,000 Buy You in Las Vegas?"

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/18/...-in-las-vegas/