NJ lottery winners still receiving welfare, food stamps, audit says

Comment #17

pickone4me — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:19:43 GMT

Considered how much money was pissed away on bailing out banks, and failing corporations, and continued subsidising many big businesses....Why is this news

Comment #16

OldSchoolPa — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:15:47 GMT

It is apparent that these NJ auditors do not watch Walking Dead ...if they did, then they would know that dead people get hungry and need to eat too! Dead lives matter!

Okay, those who took that seriously need to go take in a comedy show...today or tonight or as soon as feasible.

Comment #15

CARBOB — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:21:43 GMT

Loser, I am surprised that you, a person who thinks a liberal can do no wrong, would object to this thievery. I wonder who these individuals are, the ones who are dead? Are they some of those who vote multiple times

Comment #14

Stack47 — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:15:48 GMT

Why are there not systems in place for every state in the US that has a lottery in place?

Because the state welfare agencies would expect the lottery to do the policing, they would pass it on to their retailers, and then down to the same clerks who found a way to use EBT cards to purchase tickets. The state probably figured out it costs more to police it than they lose.

Are that many people on public assistance winning large lottery prizes

Comment #13

noise-gate — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 23:11:27 GMT

...totally.

Kinda reminds me of a scene near the end of the movie World War Z when one of the Doctor's says You can't make Dead people sick - apparently these folks are saying they can do one better by claiming that the dead are hungry..

Comment #12

Gleno — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:06:43 GMT

The Asbury Park Press of NJ has published an article today about Ticket discounting, cashing other player's winning tickets ,so that the real winners can avoid paying taxes,judgements, child support or other debts owed to the state.The Press has found that 840 prizes totaling $1.8 million collected by 20 most frequent prize winners,are either lottery retailers or members of their family. The NJ lottery commission is going to investigate.

Comment #11

savagegoose — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 14:03:29 GMT

Im sure the dead are all completely innocent. The living; claiming in their names, are another matter altogether.

Comment #10

shyguitar — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:46:11 GMT

This is just nuts. In my state of Mass I'm sure this happens. Why are there not systems in place for every state in the US that has a lottery in place? There needs to be a way to have a computer system automatically see if you are getting Welfare, Food Stamps and Medicaid and if you win a decent amount your benefits should automatically be cut off. There has always been fraud in those programs and it is unfair for tax payers to get stuck with the bill for the people who take advatage of the syst... [ More ]

Comment #9

sully16 — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:32:16 GMT

They will eventually get what's really coming to them.

Comment #8

Stack47 — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 05:59:26 GMT

The audit also found 37 people from December 2013 to May 2014 who had collected food stamp benefits even after their death was reported to the Social Security Administration.

I Hope they don't mean dead people are collecting food stamps, but wouldn't surprise me because dead people vote in every election. If they have the means to catch them, what's the problem

Comment #7

savagegoose — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 01:16:05 GMT

so far i spotted HP as the biggest fraud they should be dealing with

Comment #6

reddog — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:42:10 GMT

Finally someone gets it, supposedly. We will see. This is exactly what we have been talking about. A Demo finally sees the light, hopefully. Time will tell.

Comment #5

baseskizl — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 22:03:57 GMT

You know this is BULL snip . How snip ing hard is it to have someone call the lottery office to insure people that get public assistance haven't won more then 1K. It would take a day or less to find that out for a whole month. It does not take over $100 million to build a program. Well I am glad I don't live in NJ under Gov Chris Crisco. Not that my state is any better.

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Comment #4

Lucky Loser — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 21:28:12 GMT

Well, I suppose that some response is better than none. But, I see them as still extremely lenient, thus far, compared to what I've seen regarding the poor yet very lazy folks receiving benefits. In my opinion, this is much, much worse and should be frowned upon to the highest extent. These lottery winners have thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars at their disposal and they're still taking the system for a ride...and people basically give them a pass??? Unwilling to call them lazy, fre... [ More ]

Comment #3

Drenick1 — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 21:01:53 GMT

Willing to bet that this abuse is nation wide. They need to impose a food stamp Czar to control this abuse.

Comment #2

dr65 — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:21:17 GMT

No wonder they can't afford to hire more people.

Maybe they should make some good choices and hire a few good people to track down the cheats and liars,

throw them off the roll and in jail....oh and find out who is DEAD too...prevent those benefits from being released

then recalculate the fruits of their efforts. Millions paid to dead people? That's despicable. There's a breakdown

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Comment #1

chris-chase — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:08:01 GMT

OMG so shocking. (not

NJ lottery winners still receiving welfare, food stamps, audit says

Lottery Post — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 19:52:19 GMT

An audit sniffing out fraud in New Jersey's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program detected 66 lottery winners who were perhaps too lucky. They were all welfare and food stamps beneficiaries who had each won more than $10,000, including one person who had been collecting $1,000 a week from the Win for Life scratch-off game prior to 2009.

Ten other winners netted more than $100,000 in lottery proceeds from 2011 to 2013. All of them were still collecting food stamps this year, according to t... [ More ]