Benefits cut for Walmart shopping spree

[karadax]

http://www.ksla.com/story/23899311/state-to-cut-food-stamp-benefits-for-overspending?clienttype=generic&mobilecgbypass&utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer36f08&utm_medium=twitter

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The state social services department is going to strip food stamp benefits from people who are found to have deliberately overspent their balance when the electronic food stamp service was down last month.

The Department of Children and Family Services announced Wednesday that it would seek to disqualify food stamp recipients through the state's administrative hearing process.

Several Louisiana retailers, including Wal-Mart stores in Mansfield and Springhill, allowed food stamp recipients to make unlimited purchases on Oct. 12, when the electronic card system was down and balances couldn't be checked.

DCFS says about 12,000 insufficient funds were conducted when the system was down, though not all are assumed to be fraudulent.

The department's response comes after U.S. Sen. David Vitter complained that state officials weren't aggressively pursuing food stamp fraud.

Here's hoping the majority aren't repeat offenders. If so they risk losing their benefits for up to a year, perhaps longer. Kids lose out because their parents didn't fully think it out.

[littlewolf]

1. I really do not think there will be many repeat offenders.

I do not want the kids to suffer either, not all of these were fraud.

[meanit]

2. And the companies and corporations

that deliberately allowed these purchases to continue when it was clear that something was wrong? Where is the insistence that they be held accountable? Where's diaper boy Vitter's outrage at that?

Perhaps we should hope that the slime ball stores who tried to cash in on this aren't repeat offenders also, but the record speaks different

[Niceguy1]

5. walmart should have not acceped

Snap purchases until the system was fixed...thatd what most everyone did in my area...they had people at the door telling everyone no snap

[Laelth]

3. Bobby Jindal's work. Such a nice guy. n/t

-Laelth

[notadmblnd]

4. Walmart comitted some fraud here too.

I wonder what their bottom line would look like if the government took away their ability to accept food stamps as payment for a while?

[SamKnause]

6. Such Hypocrisy

If only they had pursued Wall Street with such a vengeance.

It is illegal for the poor to steal, or scam a corporation or the government.

It is perfectly legal for corporations and the government to steal from the masses.

I do not support, or endorse the United States two tier justice system.