Court: Michigan stiffed deserving people out of food aid
Over and over again, the computer rejected their names — and automatically cut off their food stamps.
Walter Barry, a 46-year-old mentally disabled Detroit man who lives with his mother, lost his public assistance when his name turned up in a fugitive database: His brother had stolen his name and used it as an alias when he was arrested about 25 years ago.
Identity theft victim Donitha Copeland, a onetime homeless woman, lost her food benefits when her name showed up in the same database: There was an outstanding warrant for her arrest for writing bad checks in Kalamazoo, though she had never been there.
Kenneth Anderson, a disabled 58-year-old man who requires oxygen 24 hours a day, lost his food assistance, too, because of an arrest warrant involving a nephew — not him.
Read more: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/08/26/court-michigan-food-stamps-crime/89425014/
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