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I don't think there's a single county in the US where someone making $80k a year qualifies for food stamps. It's indexed to the poverty rate. Do you mean WIC, maybe? That's more universal.
Sounds like the rural South sucks ass. As someone with family from the area, I'd agree it does. They should probably stop voting for the people who want to keep them poor, desperate, dumb, and angry.
View: "if you aren't actively gaming the system" in my post.
People here intentionally adopt or have children, stay with their spouse for 20+ years while never married, all with the intention of getting multi-thousand dollar tax returns and keeping EBT. The wife doesn't need to work, her husband makes enough to support them. So she has three or more children. Then she's a single mother with no income, as far as the state is concerned, so she gets EBT/Medical Cards, etc.
I know individuals who make between 50k-80k who draw between 700-1300 in food stamps a month because of these arrangements. It's everywhere.
That's idiotic, because it means he can't claim those kids as dependents and is paying far more in taxes every year than they would filing jointly. I could see people doing that for the medicaid, I guess, which is why we need to eliminate income bars for that program and just universalize it, then allow people to buy private health insurance to supplement.
Yeah, he pays more in taxes than he would if they jointly filed. But the money his wife gets back + 700-1000/mo in EBT more than makes up for it. That's basically an extra 20 grand not taxed per year.
Since when do people get $700 plus in EBT
Idk how all states do it but in my state if you're "single" with children you can draw anywhere from 600-1200 depending on what you make.