New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
Oct 25th 2011, 11:38 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
If my nephews friends are to be believed, then cheating on drug tests is trivial.
One can buy powdered urine online.
One can buy powdered urine online.
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Oct 26th 2011, 1:54 am
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
When your life is shit, and you see no way out as such, forgetting it all in some kind of alternate, altered state, no matter how induced, can seem the lesser of 2 evils, or more attractive, in the moment...
Oct 27th 2011, 2:59 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
I learnt the other day that food stamps sold to buy drugs. Credits on the swipe card are sold for 50% of their value . You pay them $100 they give you their card and you get $200 of food at the supermarket. It was new to me but by all accounts not uncommon.
Oct 27th 2011, 3:56 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
Oct 27th 2011, 7:32 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
I didn't read the original replies at the beginning of this thread, so I don't know if this was already mentioned. How do they handle people who are on legitimate prescribed meds that would show up in a drug test. Do they allow for those exceptions, or would they expect people to just 'grin and bear' any pain they might have and forgo taking paid meds to pass this test?
Oct 27th 2011, 9:10 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
I didn't read the original replies at the beginning of this thread, so I don't know if this was already mentioned. How do they handle people who are on legitimate prescribed meds that would show up in a drug test. Do they allow for those exceptions, or would they expect people to just 'grin and bear' any pain they might have and forgo taking paid meds to pass this test?
Oct 28th 2011, 4:28 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
It's pretty much been going on for ages. The other thing they do is buy the expensive organic milk that comes in the fancy bottles that have a $2-3 deposit, dump the milk and redeem the bottle deposit for cash to buy smokes...well it was a big problem in Maine, that they made it so you couldn't get bottled organic milk on the stamps.
Oct 28th 2011, 4:45 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
It's pretty much been going on for ages. The other thing they do is buy the expensive organic milk that comes in the fancy bottles that have a $2-3 deposit, dump the milk and redeem the bottle deposit for cash to buy smokes...well it was a big problem in Maine, that they made it so you couldn't get bottled organic milk on the stamps.
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Oct 28th 2011, 6:17 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
I am not sure it is a small minority, my step daughter seems to know all the scams, I will ask her.
Oct 28th 2011, 6:21 pm
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Re: New benefits law in Florida, what do you think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplem...raud_and_abuse
And here:
Fraud in the government program that helps the poor has added up to nearly $100 million since 2007, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. It's a fraction of the more than $40 billion spent to feed people each year, but the crime has become a brazen way for some small stores to literally swipe cash from the U.S. Treasury, especially in the Detroit area.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/in...roit-area.html
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