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Tennessee may cap lottery winnings at $600 for poorReply
I don't have a problem with people who are down on their luck being on welfare.Anyone can can have a bad run of luck and find themselves on welfare.I DO have a problem with career welfare cheats,those folks who are 2nd 3rd generation welfare recipiants.These people simply don't want to work and are content to lay around and collect a check and foodstamps from the government.I can't say that someone on welfare can afford to buy nice clothes and expensive suv's with 25 inch rims.They don't make an
Apr 8, 2009, 12:28 pm - MaddMike51 - Lottery News

Mich. lottery winner to plead guilty to felony firearm chargesReply
With all the thousands of welfare recipients, turned lottery winners, turned welfare cheats.....they should start their own welfare scamming club!
Jul 26, 2012, 9:32 am - mcginnin56 - Lottery News

Lottery bill could limit winner's takeReply
it's one of many ways to get off the system So how many people on welfare have gotten off of welfare by playing the lottery? And how much did people on welfare have to spend in order to do that? That's the important part, which you must not understand. Having a handfull of people on welfare save taxpayers a few million dollars doesn't actualy help the taxpayers if they spent more than twice as much of our tax dollars as they save us by no longer collecting welfare. Make no mistake, that's h
Oct 25, 2010, 2:49 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

NJ lottery winners still receiving welfare, food stamps, audit saysNews Story
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
Dec 6, 2014, 2:52 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Loopholes allow some Michigan lottery winners to stay on welfareReply
Technically if you win the lottery the welfare money you would be collecting your own money. I have said this before, but I will say it again, the same lottery winners that collect welfare that people talk smack about have probably paid more in taxes from their winnings than all of you combined and are paying for a lot of you guy's and your family's benefits that you are collecting. The amount that they would get back via welfare is a pittance to what they paid out in taxes when they collected.
Apr 16, 2013, 11:22 pm - VenomV12 - Lottery News

Maine moves to disqualify lottery winners from receiving food stampsNews Story
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday announced a new rule to ban food stamps for major lottery and gambling winners. The new rule allows for the immediate termination of benefits when a welfare recipient collects winnings of $5,000 or more in one calendar month, the department announced in a press release. The prize will continue to count as an asset that could disqualify a person from welfare under the asset limits recently adopted by the LePage administration. A l
Oct 25, 2016, 10:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

Proposal to ban welfare recipients from playing lotteryReply
Good argument on both sides of the spectrum here, guys. Sure, it is the so-called government money that we pay with our taxes. However, the lottery can't physically destroy you. Tobacco and alcohol physically destroy you. The lottery can only mentally destroy you. I can go through all of that with a lengthy post, but I'll have to save it for now. But yeah, I can completely understand the argument as to why these people who rely on all sorts of government assistance shouldn't be allowed to spend
Jan 29, 2013, 1:33 am - LottoPerro - Lottery News

New York seizes $20 million in lottery prizes from people on public assistanceReply
Liveth by the welfare dieth by the welfare. @someone above ....BTW, there is a huge diff between unemployment benefits and welfare programs, there are millions of people that have never been gainfully employed their entire lives for countless reasons.
Jul 6, 2017, 8:09 am - jarasan - Lottery News

New York seizes $20 million in lottery prizes from people on public assistanceReply
A lot of welfare recipients in Onondaga county?
Jul 5, 2017, 12:33 pm - MillionsWanted - Lottery News

NC Powerball winner in trouble againReply
No back on welfare.
Jan 16, 2016, 1:27 pm - Lynn-Lynn - Lottery News