State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up

[R.Zaragoza]

State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up

Last Updated: Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:26pm

In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls.

It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Incidentally, the program was recently changed to SNAP to eliminate the stigma that comes with a name like food stamps. Just a few months ago the federal agency that administers the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), launched a multi-million-dollar initiative to recruit more food-stamp participants even though the number of recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years.

This week Oregon officials bragged that the USDA has given the state $5 million in “performance bonuses” for ensuring that people eligible for food benefits receive them and for its “swift processing of applications.” The money comes on the heels of a separate $1.5 million award from the feds for making “accurate payments of food stamp benefits to clients.” So welfare recipients are clients? .

It marks the fifth consecutive year that Oregon has been “recognized” by the federal government for “exceptional administration” of the entitlement program, according to the announcement posted on the state’s Department of Human Services web site. The state official who runs SNAP assures that her staff will “continue working very hard to exceed expectations” so that Oregonians can “put healthy foods on their table quickly.”

Could this be why the number of food-stamp beneficiaries in Oregon has increased dramatically in the last few years? Since 2008 the state has seen a 60% boost in the number of food-stamp recipients, which means that more than 780,000 people (one out of five Oregonians) get groceries compliments of Uncle Sam.

As if this weren’t bad enough, the feds are also giving the state a two-year grant to test an “innovative approach” to the food-stamp “client eligibility review process.” This will make it even easier for people to get food stamps because it grants state officials a waiver that allows them to grant the benefit without interviewing the candidate.

State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up | Judicial Watch

[78SA]

Typical money hungry government idiots.

[LATB]

end it tomorrow.

there are not 40 million starving Americans. It's Bull Cheet and a wealth redistribution scheme.

We are buying food for people who have tattoos and cell phones.

It's FOOD-CLOTHING-SHELTER...and probably in that order. After you have that established, then you seek out the Air Jordan's and the IPhone.

[Yerf Dog]

I wish I could say I was shocked.

[jaxgator]

Oh SNAP!

What happens when the number of "clients" outweighs the number of taxpayers?

[Luetic]

give states an incentive to get people OFF food stamps not ON!

god damn this is retarded

[73sbVert]

Originally Posted by Luetic

give states an incentive to get people OFF food stamps not ON!

god damn this is retarded

^^^ This.

[99 pewtercoupe]

This afternoon I stopped at a local super market to pick up some adult beverages for the weekend.
Ahead of me in the express line was a woman who had about a dozen items of regular groceries but she put the little seperation bar down on the conveyor belt and then placed a bottle of a well known premium gin behind it. She proceeded to pay for the groceries with her "food stamp" card and then opened a roll of $20 bills to pay for the gin.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by LarsAtTheBeach

end it tomorrow.

there are not 40 million starving Americans. It's Bull Cheet and a wealth redistribution scheme.

We are buying food for people who have tattoos and cell phones.

It's FOOD-CLOTHING-SHELTER...and probably in that order. After you have that established, then you seek out the Air Jordan's and the IPhone.

I submit the post below as example "A".

Originally Posted by 99 pewtercoupe

This afternoon I stopped at a local super market to pick up some adult beverages for the weekend.
Ahead of me in the express line was a woman who had about a dozen items of regular groceries but she put the little seperation bar down on the conveyor belt and then placed a bottle of a well known premium gin behind it. She proceeded to pay for the groceries with her "food stamp" card and then opened a roll of $20 bills to pay for the gin.

Any doubters want to challenge the clear thinking among to run the alphabet?