What's crazier is ppl working full time and still needing food stamps! If you work full time and it's not enough... what's the point?

I work, I have food stamps also. I don’t get paid enough to pay my bills and eat.

The laws in Alabama is you have to work to get it. Unless your disabled or elderly.

Thank goodness my home is paid for. But the real estate tax water, gas, electric is horrible. It never ends. No money left for garden, car care,kid's school stuff

I had an accident 3 years ago, broke my back, cant work, SSI denied, food stamps denied, why? because i am married and my wife does 130 bucks more than the limit, but healthy lazy people gets everything, the full package........

Part of the problem is that once you make a certain amount of money, which is right above the federal poverty rate, you lose all your benefits. It’s difficult for the middle class, imagine making less than that

Honestly the food stamp programs make you with if you're able to. I've been in their stupid little work programs many times where they teach you to flip burgers and push brooms for thirty hours a week to get your benefits. The ink wasn't even dry on my degree when they wanted me doing their stupid stuff. I can guarantee they aren't just relaxing. Being on government programs is ridiculous with all the hoops you must jump through. Seriously if you're able bodied you're in human services pushing brooms or filling papers stupid busy work that does nothing for building skills to get out the system. I say these huge corporations that are using welfare programs to supplement their wages need to pay.

I work at a grocery store. The amount of people I see with new Iphones fancy clothes, and occasionally get to see who has what car. And the amount of people who use EBT in general, but especially those who have Gucci, bags Louie Vatton sun glasses and whip out newest Iphones, then ask about WiC EBT, never fails to floor me. Especially when ya see they drive an Escalade. 😮💥

Here in the U.S. the more you make the less you have. There are exceptions to all rules. The most powerful people in the U.S. are the extremely rich and extremely poor. The rich because they have so much they can't lose. The poor because they don't have anything to lose.

Some people go out to find work but get shut down by companies

I'm disabled and they won't give me a ebt card. This system is way messed up.

As a former food stamp and goverment assistance person, yes, most people I knew on it could work. I hated it. And turning them in resulting in nothing. Granted I realize there isn't enough people to follow these people around and see if they are honest or not. Many people on food stamps would give their card to someone and that person would buy stuff for themselves. In return they would buy beer and cigarettes for the person. Others had doctors who LIED about what issues they had so the person could get on assistance. In some cases people lied to their doctors and pretended to have various mental issues as it easily gets you assistance. This is why I said being on assistance is a prison in many ways. 1. Dealing with the government means jumping through many loopholes EVERY month to stay on them. Including traveling to a certain location, in my case, IU can't drive so I had to make sure the buses were eon time. And that of course I wasn't sick and could make said appointment. Granted I realize its strict for a reason. 2. Dealing with others on assistance who really didn't need it and bragged about how they cheat system. And dealing with the fact the government didn't stop their assistance. 3. Dealing with every day people who assume ALL people on assistance are faking whatever to get it. True, many faked it of course. But being judged because of the idiots who were on it, it was annoying. I lost my assistance when my wife started making to much. Not a complaint mind you. It's stress free to be off of it. However the only issue is my wife is an immigrant who went into debt on accident. So we can barley afford rent. So not at least having free healthcare is costing us so much. Even with her good insurance. I also never understood how working people could get them. You serious? Before I got married I was living with my parents and disabled. I had zero income, so I couldn't afford food. Yet working people were still able to get them. I think if your working and on them, maybe they force you into financial counseling where they look at your spending habits. Then if the counselor determines your not mispending money (beer, drugs, luxuries....etc), you MAY have a chance at getting food stamps. I also know of people who also don't care if someone really is disabled and needs assistance. They say they don't want their taxes helping anyone. They feel everyone should work to stay alive, again, no matter how legit their issue is. Those people kind of annoy me because its like, why don' you whine about the real waste of your tax money. Like all the other garabge it supports. Like our ridiculous military spending. Growing up I think 7% of spending was on welfare programs. It's like 20% now. So still a smaller cut of of the pie. I don't know how anyone on assistance, who is faking it, can deal with the stress of a crappy lifestyle.

There's two reasons for this I suspect, one more obvious in that it's a bad economy so being *able* to work is entirely different from being able to *find* work. Second issue is less obvious but the way food stamps are calculated is pretty reductive, basically if you're working anything but the minimum amount of hours and wage you get next to nothing from foodstamps due to how they're calculated.

My mother has had terrible health problems her entire life, she’s on disabilities because of them, could she work yes but if she works then she loses her health insurance, with how expensive pharmaceutical drugs are for her to go back to work it would be a death sentence..

I worked over 40 years in major hospitals/nursing homes 👉🏾sometimes as a receptionist, but mostly as a cleaner of emergency & infectious disease rooms, or floors with end of life patients. I quickly became team leader or supervisor at every job, but never made over $12 an hour 😒people say it's my fault for letting my OCD choose my profession & I should've chosen better jobs, I say corporations should pay people their worth no matter what job you do 🙄 When I finally had enough of being taken advantage of & took early retirement... I noticed when I visit my doctor, the cleaning teams are lackluster (young) & there are more & more bad strains of infections, harming folks in hospitals. My Son said they need sick people to make money.

I do get SNAP benefits, but I also work and receive disability benefits that I almost died for at 8 years old! At that, I only get $23 in SNAP benefits

Try being on SOCIAL SECURITY after working MOST of your life...16 to 79 years of age...hard to live on LESS then $1700/month!!!

Live within your means and look for jobs that pay better. Dont buy expensive crap and work towards a carrer. Some people on food stamps sell them and trade them for things you can't get with food stamps. There are jobs that pay well enough without a degree. It's just a matter of how much effort you're willing put in.

I'm on disability and I get a whopping $23 dollars a month on my EBT card. 😮 Thanks Uncle Sam !

I live in Kentucky and had a job for 9 years where I went on seasonal layoffs. So I was layed off for 90 days through the winter because it was too cold to lay asphalt. During that 90 days I received temporary unemployment benefits including snap. But ended the benefits when I returned to work. The unemployment rate was half of my normal income.

The best song explained this situation. Richmen North of Richmond. Yip obese milkn welfare. 5'3 and 300 pounds taxes should not pay for your bags of fudge rounds. I know people tht really need a hand sometimes and the cabr get aby help And there's hundreds of thousands of people that are able to work and milk the system. And sell food stamps for cash when they're able to work. The system needs to be 100% revamped.

Tax, car, insurance, rent, bills. 🎉🎉🎉 all before food. 50$ left. Not allowed food stamps when making 2k before tax... fuk this. I just got section 8 to even have food at this rate. Wtf is this uh

Today's generation doesn't know what work is they think it's a dirty word 😮

Hell, I'm in Florida. I'm disabled as my husband is, both at a younger age. Together, we make waaaay under what is required to receive any benefits besides Medicare. I'm not even qualified for Medicaid. The reason? I refuse to lie on the forms. Most that get these benefits get them in the wrong manner. I can barely keep weight on. It pisses me off. We're seen as "able" because we're young with no visible disabilities. The judgments are swift and cut to the core. We even got yelled at by a man in a wheelchair, even though our disability placard was clearly displayed. It's getting worse every election year.

14:39 i agree 💯 but under employment is real big huge problem and anyone who has never experienced the situation they have no idea.

That’s the slavery mentality that pins us all against each other. Everyone should be able to afford the basics, whether they are able to work or not.

I am disabled and this year they discontinued my social security medicare help. I get less social security now while prices go higher. That really helps us poor by cutting our monthly incomes more.

I feel like systematic problems need to be solved with systematic solutions. It never made sense for me to blame the person who is manipulating a bad system. I am someone who is legally blind, and I work 30 hours a week. But because I make less than $2590 I still get my SSDI benefits. I actually make a pretty good living with all of that, but I can’t work more hours or else I’ll end up making less money. I would like to work a better job, but unfortunately, Amazon was the only company who would even give me a chance to work. 64% of blind people do not have a job which probably explains why I am allowed to make so much money.

Listen its sad you can work and still need help thats a huge problem

So in NYS you actually are required to work in order to receive food stamps unless you fall under certain categories. Over 65 and disabled are the main ones I know of.

funny in california I am 72 and was told that not to worry about food stamps anymore that I would get them...BUT I voted rep in california and got a notice to start over so I just let them go as it was only 24 dollars, but they are watching

Starting to believe that America only qualifies certain people because I don't understand how most Americans do not have work but yet they're giving all their work to migrants make it make sense😊

Your way of speaking is so savory lol I love it !!

Got me with aliona meriacri on the thumbnail 😉

compromises used to mean each party came to the table with wants and both left giving something up. Now they compromise by giving everyone what they want

Did they not think funding the destruction of the family wouldn't come to a head? Just imagine all the other money they're spending on BS.

I know a woman lives in Beaufort South Carolina with her boyfriend she's had three more kids off of welfare she receives $2,300 a month in food stamps works in under the table for her boyfriend's family which owns a construction business and he build her a $670,000 home where they live together which she lied to the food stamp office about she works under the table receives $2,300 a month in food stamps and had three more kids on the South Carolina dime. And the sad thing is her boyfriend says they're going to have as many kids as they can have until he gets a boy and will not get married until he has a boy cause welfare is going to pay for it he says he pays his taxes but the funny thing about that is this company has filed bankruptcy twice

This is why food stamps should be temporary. Also foodstamps are setup so that if you don't make enough to pay your own way, you still get assistance. And most SNAP receivers sell their foodstamps for 50 cents on the dollar. If they get 400, they sell them for 200 cash. Their kids just go hungry. I've seen it my whole life.

There aren't enough jobs. A lot of people have to wait to get hired. There are too many layoffs and migrants taking open positions. It is a bad job market and it is getting worse for most people.

Dont get started on rent an trying to buy a home. Here in NY rent is ridiculous. 1900 for a 1 bedroom the size of a shoebox and rundown.

In Michigan you can get on SSI with a hang nail. Then comes the Bridge Card "food stamps" and Medicaid. My daughter in laws cousin works at a Subway/gas station and was talking about illegals coming in with their cards buying junk food. They never take receipts so she looks at the balances that are between 2,000.00 to 3,000.00.

I am in Albany NY and part of a hiring committee in my company and it is extremely hard to get applicants to even come in for an interview. Most make appointments and then just never show up or respond. This is entry level jobs with pay much higher than minimum wage. If we do get them to interview they do it over the phone. Everyone wants to work remotely and it is beyond frustrating having spent decades of my life waking up at the ass crack of dawn to show up to work on time.

Thank you Sir

If one works but does not make a lot of money, they still can be eligible for food stamps and Medicaid. Also, to receive food stamps the easiest way is to have a child under the age of 18 in the household. All you need to have in the household is one child. Thus, if you have more than one child, you will see others that are said to be under the care of aunts, grandmothers, etc. They become eligible for long term. The main problem I see with the food stamp program is that you will have a young couple, no children and underemployed, they are only eligible for three months of benefits. We need to take better care of this group.

Just a note, the national defense budget is nearly equal to the current welfare budget. $849.8 b(NDB)/$1.101 t(NWB) and note that the (NWB) goes to more than just Medicaid/Medicare/SSI/SSDI/Foodstamps(SNAP) While the national defense budget largely has been used to hold the usa's position as the one with the biggest stick. That said I am on SSDI and bloody HATE it!! Can't go to the doctor when I need to, only when it's most convenient for the 1 office that will accept the insurance like 4-5 months down the road and 2-3 hours from my home. Can't afford to do anything, not that I could easily in the first place because of my disability. And I have to deal with people who's never seen/met me try telling me im just faking this that and any other thing. I don't want to be disabled, I WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK!! But my 'SCI' makes that literally impossible for me. I miss work and the people I'd meet. Just remember some people are on government assistance because they can't work, because too many people believe otherwise.

What is more crazy I went to the Human Resources department to get my papers for the next election. I saw cars that looked expensive and new People came out with their hair done, nails, fancy phones… they were dressed like they had no money and asked for government help.

Even though it's a federal program it's regulated by state to state in my state of Ohio they have a works first program that if you want stamps you must work for them whether it is emptying trash in the courthouse or something and then they work it out as an hourly scale and it's not even minimum wage plus paid in stamps no money so I disagree with this whole story

I had some involvement with the food stamps reddit boards for a time. And it is a program that helps a lot of needy people. But there are also such broad rules that at times are ridiculous. For instance I remember a college kid going to Berkeley his family was paying his full tuition/books etc and he talked about having a 50k trust fund designed to pay for housing. And he wanted to know if he could get Food Stamps(and yes he qualified) because in his words he didn't want to work since he wanted to focus on school. Nor did he want to take student loans. More then happy to put it on the public dime with a 50k Trust and his family paying for his 4 years at U.S.C. Berkeley which cost about 200k dollars. Yep makes sense. Note this was during Covid so rules were much more relaxed but was still ridiculous.

When I worked at the local grocery store there was a woman who came to my work in a hummer, had a two story mansion with a very wealthy husband, and she used food stamps. Most maddening thing I’ve ever seen

Bare in mind too though: some people are able to work but don't but they don't because there isn't jobs where they are at. Some of that's their fault too not being willing to move. But some of that is they are stuck to a location because of family commitments or what not. Or stuck in a circle can't afford to move because don't have money don't have money because don't have job, could get job but can't afford to move and around around it goes.

Don't forget there are a lot of school teachers on the west coast and other high COLA (Cost Of Living Area) areas that are on food stamps as well...

I had food stamps for my daughter... so there was food for her when i couldnt afford it. I've always afforded my own food. I now make too much and was told I no longer get food stamps, which was an awesome feeling... why don't people strive for that hurdle and surpassing it.. ive lost so much faith in a lot of our people, and theyve lost faith in themselves. Its crazy.

I make minimum wage and have a family of 5 soon to be 6, I have never received food stamps. My husband works doordash, and I work 50+ hours a week. I hate people who take advantage of the system but do nothing to help themselves. If you budget correctly, you can live off minimum wage. I'm not saying it isn't a struggle, but you have to do what you gotta do to provide for your family.

Your right I have a housing voucher and i found out when I lost my job that my rent would be free and I would recieve a utility assistance check and max amount of food stamps and medicaid for all of us. Now that I'm working I have lost all my benefits and have to pay rent and utilities and I barely make it. I see now why people stay on welfare and choose to make money under the table. At least they know they'll have a roof over their head and food on the table.

Why pay money to a nation that rewards you with more debt? We need to somehow find a way for our tax dollars to make the government rich and the people threw it. The government uses tax money to create a product to then sell to other nations and countries. Everyone pays the same amount that would the be the least amount needed to slowly get rid of the national debt. When that happens everyone would start getting money back. We need to start creating incentives for people to come here and pay taxes and make it impossible to avoid paying and punish and hold accountable those who avoid it or better yet kljust make it more worth it to pay into it.

As a caregiver for multiple people I can attest obtaining SNAP benefits is not easy in some states. Which is why our wonderful landlord allowed us to plow up their backyard and use it as a small farm. My patients are eating well and have a job they perform each day.

I can’t remember how many times I’ve offered people jobs and they’ve said “i can’t do that itll come out of my disability” or some variation of that phrase. People are addicted to free minimum crap. Then what’s wild is ebt is wasted at dollar general on frozen goods that cost 3x going rate or at the gas station on sodas.

You are required to apply for jobs to get food stamps if you are not working and able bodied. There is no way people can make $80000 off of public assistance. Only disabled people who are applying for social security disability are allowed to get max food stamps without working or applying for jobs every week. Also people get small amounts on food stamps if the work too much to get full food stamps.

Before covid me and my wife were both working, we were receiving food stamps. Even with the assistance of having our groceries paid for my mom still helped us out with a few things from time to time. When we eventually made enough to pay all of our bills ourselves they took away our food stamps, which honestly crippled us till covid. Covid was the best thing that ever happened in my bank account.

Minimum wage jobs are for minimum skilled employees. If you're trying to support a family on a minimum wage job you screwed up somewhere. Too many people partied their way through school and now have to pay the price.

One day we're all going to get old and the same people that we treated when they was up high they must come low and who's going to wipe your butt and give you a bath then those are the same people who might treat you wrong what goes up must come down

So how much is minimum wage these days? I get disability not by choice. I was forced into it of course and when I had to apply for it, I was approved in seven weeks. Yeah I know that’s like some kind of record right my disability equates to about $7.35 an hour you know what I get for food benefit $106 a month, so if you wanna tell me what pisses me off is every illegal immigrant in this country getting a shit ton more from this government than I do and I worked all my life. I did serve this country as the generations of my father before me…

We've always knew this. Always. Guessing its alot closer to 98%. They dont shop in my county.. they get confronted at the register.. humiliated.

I've been unemployed for like 2 years unable to find a job. Employers still have to hire.....

$80k/year!? I don’t know anyone who get that much govt assistance.

I remember working as a teaching assistant in grad school and i was being paid so little i qualified for food stamps. i needed it to get by and be able to pay rent. for me this was a temporary situation however it took me 5.5 years to get through grad school. doing much better now and no longer qualify for food stamps :P.

They should look into the amount of people who have businesses and make more than reported to receive benefits and they are on food stamps…

I was always against food stamps until I understood. I dated someone who had 3 kids, the way she explained it to me was she could work for about $5-$10 above minimum wage, but they would cut her food stamps, and she would have to find a sitter for the kids which would make everything moot. The other side of it would be the feeling of self worth, I know it hurt to be on food stamps.

I want to work, and have been on many interviews but I am not getting hired.. It is not always up to the people to get up and work, it is up to the employers. if the employers don't want to hire you, you are not going to get a job PERIOD. and what is the point of working full time just to still have to get on food stamps and cash assistance and be called a lazy moocher spending the governments money!! For most of these jobs, people are working just to pay taxes. it is not enough to buy food and shelter. people need to stop acting dumb about the situation here.

I used to live by Glendale Los Angeles and I always saw Armenians in Benzes, Beemers, and Cadis coming to collect their checks at the local benefits center. They are hardcore scammers. Cali allows scammers to scam. The crooks thrive there.

The state has a very low bar when it comes to who qualifies for benefits. You can only make a certain amount based on your family size. I worked in the RCC in the state I live in as an eligibility Specialist and was in charge of working welfare cases. During covid, they gave everyone who applied food stamps regardless of their income. All of that has ended now and they are kicking a bunch of people off of assistance.

There are so many people that use the system to never work and they are professionals at it because they get a lot of money

I know ppl on Sociap security, qorked app theyre lives and they get around 860$ a month, after bills , they're lucky to have 200$ left to last a WHOLE month, know what amount of Food Stamps theyre eligible for? 30$ or so. 30 FUCKING dollars. Meanwhile billions leave this country everyday.

Of course. Always remember when you give the people some help more people who don't need that help will abuse than the ones who need it.

😂😂😂 He said that was the entire budget for 84.

Pretty much the same thing here in the UK, We are in a cost of living crisis also you have lots of good and righteous people who are working 1 or 2 jobs and still end up at food banks to make ends meet. I can't shake the feeling that this is all planned by the champagne & caviar crew

Not surprising given the push for child labor recently. When they consider an 8 year old a non-working unit.....

Should be codemning these multi billion dollar corporations that dont pay their workers a living wage. Rents over 2k now, in Maine lol

Inflation eats the food stamp off where the food stamps could last you a month.But now the food stamps last two weeks if you're lucky with a household of five it doesn't go far four hundred dollars

ONLY 62%? i thought it would be higher. the real kicker is the length of people being on stamps. i saw a breakdown of that a coupe years ago. it was crazy

Not surprising, pretty much expected.

An additional problem is that the nation also has too many illiterate and low-skilled people and a bad, unaccountable educational system in additional to unaccountable, irresponsible parents who allow their children to disregard the value of being educated and skilled. Once they are grown it's often too late and very difficult to reverse course. It's a big cyclical mess.

I completely believe what you're saying that most these people could are able to work but when a single person is trying to manage everything paying all their own utilities their car costs and whatever else is required rent and we make too much to get food stamps that's what's sad The system is rigged if you go out and actually work on minimum wage you make too much if you're single for food stamps

Make it make sense im on ssi and applied for food stamps and wanted to give me 16 dollars how the hell people can live on it it makes me sick to my stomach

I don’t understand why people don’t want any kind of savings because food stamps won’t pay for an uncovered emergency

130 hour a week worker here(firefighter) i work 130 hours a week and still need to be on food stamps due to the outragous food prices

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s family also qualified for food stamps in CA. I don’t know how, but they did.

A lot of hospitality and food service jobs are like that. That was the case even pre covid.

You can't work and stay on these programs, but if you work you don't make enough to live.

Min wage is under $8.00 an hour in some states by law!

The Automobile industry is ridiculously high...food cannot afford even for a family of (1.) Forget about clothing, Praying every day for relief

the big hurdle about food stamps was when obama was president he said let anyone have gov help so people will depend own gov

I'm pleasantly surprised. I thought it would be higher.

Florida now is you have to work 20 hours hrs a week or volunteer for 30 hrs a week to recieve foodstamps

They get more money staying home or just working under the table.

Sad part is there's more people with minor mental health issues such as bipolar and ADHD who receive disability than that of the working class from injury. We cater to the pathetic not the weak and injured

I think people on food assistants programs that choose not to work is no surprise. What is horrible is people working full time needing those same programs to make it anymore.

I work. I pay for food, rent, car, commute, gas electric and other things. I get no break.

There are some people who have small kids not in school daycare is incredibly expensive plus rent and everything else that you need to pay for right but if you go to work and get a minimum wage job its impossible to pay for everything and then if you make just a little money you don't get food stamps but if you started working when you were 14 and then you need assistance until your kids are all in a full day of school but some ppl do more than just food stamps they take advantage of all government benefits like not just food stamps but snap cash rent bills etc but if you don't have kids and can work they make you work so many hours or do some sorta schooling or job courses to recieve food stamps

Never received food stamps though, my husband worked side jobs so i could stay home before my kids went to school.