Michigan removes 30,000 students from food stamps

[DolorousEdd]

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"The station used public records requests to reveal that in the span of one year, people using state-issued welfare debit cards withdrew about $2 million from ATMs at Washington casinos. Furthermore, it determined that DSHS issued replacement cards, with no questions asked, to people who claimed to have lost theirs. Each month last year, the department handed out an average of 27,000 replacement cards. Some 20,000 people had cards replaced three times or more, and nearly 100 had their cards replaced at least 20 times.

Wow, that’s just an idiotic system then. Make it an account only accessed by the card not directly credited to the one piece of plastic (therefore replacements won’t mean anything) and make it impossible to withdraw from ATMs (like in Florida, I know).</p>

<p>But DON’T just take them from people who need them. A few simple reforms, without cutting anyone, would fix these problems.</p>