One in Eight Americans Now Receives Food Stamps

My girlfriend receives $200 dollars a month worth of food stamps. She's in the local Public Allies program which is a public service organization that spreads out a bunch of young adults into the community to asses some problems and try to fix or add soemthing beneficial to the community itself. They are also obligated to work for a local nonprofit which they apply to and are chosen by the nonprofits.

She's paid a good wage by Public Allies to work for said nonprofit but her wages are not recognized as a wage by the Food Stamp committee (or whoever is in charge of that).

With that said, allow me to tell you a story. It's about a girl and a boy living together, living on the bare essentials, making the most of out little. What we ate was OK as we are both adept to the kitchen, but by no means was any of it particularly amazing.

BUT THEN!

FOOD STAMPS!?

The day we received them (in a form of something like a Debit/Credit card) we headed to the local grocery (Giant Eagle) and we at. That night we prepared an amazing dinner for us and two of our friends. A double dinner date at home. Not uncommon these days as we spread the wealth around.

And how we ate, on food stamps we know what to buy and it's completely free. We eat all sorts of fancy foods, Filet Minon, Halibut, blocks of various cheeses. We are living the life, I now know what it's like to be part of the upper crust, sipping wine and eating fine.

A shocking waste of taxpayer money, I'm sure. I'm somewhat flabergasted that she gets food stamps when she makes an average wage, and when combined with mine, we wouldn't have any problems, unless you consider a lack of Filet Minon in our stomachs a problem.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Midna

So basically what you're saying is your girlfriend knew she could get away with getting undeserved/unneeded food stamps so she spent how many hours in a welfare office to apply so you and your friends could have a fancy dinner.

Sounds like a keeper!

All by phone, actually. And by "getting away with" you of course mean "completely legitimate and legal" I assume. And that's dinners.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by coeccias

If I were processing your girlfriend's Food Stamp application and discovered the information revealed in your post, I would have determined there to be a Food Stamp household of 2 and requested verification of your income and property in order to determine if the Food Stamp household of 2 is eligible.

Actually, my girlfriend was working on that, it was something she overlooked when she first applied. I'm not sure where you where going with the statement, however.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'd hate to pretend I know anything about the finite details but I am confident that my girlfriend reviewed the rules and, now that she's working on combining our incomes, she has let me know that with my low low income we would likely receive more than 200 a month.

With that said I do appreciate the words on my situation.

I will point out, in response to the initial reaction I received from my personal experience, I wasn't trying to show off or prove something by pretending that I "beat the system." I was merely demonstrating that it was remarkably easy and surprising that we where eligible.

How ya doing, buddy?