Food stamps News

When a world where parents must endure background checks to gain employment should we allow background checks for welfare applicants. If one cannot gain employment or feed their family what will happen next?

Daytona Beach - An owner of a convenience store located in Daytona Beach, Florida, was arrested on Monday for using food stamps to stock his shelves.

Atlanta - Food stamps usage in the U.S. has been going steadily up since 2008. With so many Americans out of work and in some cases losing their homes, the family pet has become the next heartbreaking sacrifice.

Raleigh - North Carolina Republican lawmakers have drafted legislation to ban welfare recipients from buying lottery tickets in the state.

Newark - Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker said that starting Tuesday he will live on food stamps for a week. He's also urging the public to participate in the challenge.

Washington - In the month of August, there were an additional 420,863 recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps. In each month since October 2008, there has been an increase of participation.

Warner Robins - Cindy Nerger of Warner Robins, Ga., who has been on a waiting list for kidney transplant for five years, was brought to tears at a supermarket last week when a clerk ridiculed her in the presence of other customers for using food stamps.

Tampa - While politicians talk of an economic recovery, the use of Food Stamps in the Tampa Bay area has reached a new high, with about a half million people taking advantage of federal food compensations as of July, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

A store clerk in New Hampshire ended up getting fired for not allowing a customer to use his EBT card to buy cigarettes.

An Illinois woman Ebony Martin, 34, who set up a false state file for her boyfriend, Keith Jones, 38, with social security numbers of non-existent triplets so that he could receive more government food assistance, was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail.