Is it normal to use your food stamps to buy items to make wine?

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  • iEatZombies_
    11 years ago | pl

    Food stamps, or SNAP as it's now called, is available for the elderly, disabled, families with children, and the unemployed. The unemployed get SNAP, in many states, for a short length of time (usually 3 months) out of a few years (usually 3). The unemployed can get SNAP longer if they volunteer for a work program- unfortunately, they don't tell you how difficult it is to find these places that work with the state, also that would again ruin the unemployed statistic.

    So, my statistics may be slightly off in terms of who's disabled and on SNAP, but I promise you that most of those people who are on SNAP actually do make a source of earned income.

    Except for those lazy bastard children.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago | pl

      I was just wondering because I am disabled (Paraplegia). I have never gotten any government benefits. The only people I know that do get food stamps are single (working or not) mothers. Not to say that there are not others.

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      • iEatZombies_
        11 years ago | pl

        Do you live in a well off household? Or have a good paying job?

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        • [Old Memory]
          11 years ago | pl

          I live in a decent apartment with my roommate. I have a pretty good job yeah. I don't want any help though. I feel crippled enough without having people hand me a check for doing nothing.

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          • iEatZombies_
            11 years ago | pl

            First off, good for you. Glad to see you made that choice.
            Second, your finances wouldn't allow you to qualify.

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            • [Old Memory]
              11 years ago | pl

              Thanks. I am very glad that I do not qualify. I would never want to qualify and if I did, I wouldn't take them. It's not my style I am too prideful.

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