Watch Rep. Katie Porter Slams Food Stamp Application Questions | NowThis 

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Peter overseeing a program mostly means your a figurehead within the system that opens the door and turns on the lights.

SierraPhantom I may have. So what? You think you’re better than people on food stamps?

HE wasn't asking for money therefore her asking the questions was inappropriate.

She was trying to make a point!

EXACTLY!

Steve Chance false equivalency. there’s a huge difference between answering it on a confidential form and asking it publicly for the masses

If you were disabled, most of those numbers would be zero anyway.

True. But also, you wouldn't have to answer in front of so many people & have that information televise.

Yeah on a confidential form given to a government employee, not blurted out for everyone to hear. That was political theater. If you have a 401K you probably don't need SNAP benefits, lol.

And do you applicants respond verbally before a congressional committee? Or are they able to answer at their leisure, at the dining room table, where their records are easily accessible?

@@thomasbonnett4800 way to focus on the wrong part of the story genius. Duh

​@thomasbonnett4800 It's worse you respond to @$$hat that doesn't know basic math and won't understand monthly payments vs biweekly. Many of the snap reps don't understand devaluation in assets, disability, or temporary poverty. The worst part is you don't have a dedicated case worker and inflation doesn't mean more benefits to help cover the increased debt. We need a cap on inflation or more government community cooperative food stores cause commercial stores don't work.

She needs to go !!!

Wouldn't I rather have money to buy my food at places that don't accept food stamps get real Katie poverty porter

It’s not righteous to complain about an application while looking for handouts.

@@dcg590 Nice judgment. We'll see how differently you feel when something bad happens to you and you find yourself applying for these much needed benefits. You know like when someones house gets destroyed by a natural disaster that insurance doesn't cover, get's laid off from their job, has a life changing family member/breadwinner pass away suddenly, and a host of other unpredictable awful things that happen to people all the time.

This is not a representative example. Applicants have the info at home

ONLY in the arsenal of the petty tyrant style of inquiry. You don't understand--if he took it out--on that technicality he could immediately be charged with Contempt of Congress--he was put in a legal quandary position "cunning snare" by her and it does not reflect well on HER on that issue not him.

@@verdis23rdoperaunballoinma39 very insightful

I told my teacher "you will wait til the sun burns out then" I have been in detention ever since

Yeah and they give you that I'll wait look...makes you sweat.

i’ll say it again, Katie Porter is a Hero.

But also at the same time, you’re applying to get free government cash. It should matter how many kids you have and how much money you make. Helps figure out how much you should receive, when I was a child my Dad was paid under the table making a decent check. But he was able to gain the system by applying as homeless with 3 children. He would receive $927 a month while not taxing into the system. People do lie, it happens.

Jim Carigga So FATTY is mad that people who want to freeload off taxpayer's are asked questions. Of they don't like the questions don't ask for free money to live off from taxpayer's.

@@kennedysuggs4691 Of course that matters. But why does it matter what day of the week you get paid? Or when your sewage is cleaned? What connection does that have to the amount of money you should receive? Last time I checked, you can't use SNAP benefits to pay for your sewage cleaning.

Kennedy Suggs you copy and pasted the same comment multiple times. Get a life bro 😂

the US hates humanity..money rules and ever notice the richer you are the more you get cheap or free?

And anyone who disputes this is a liar, I used to live in Tennessee and they do nonsense like this all the time, people always complain about the federal government but the state governments are much more corrupt and incompetent

​@@shayshay9764something like the child tax credit, which can make a big difference to working-class people, is pocket change for a millionaire but they still go to the trouble to have their accountants file for that child tax credit, because they're billionaires but they're going to make a big deal out of a couple thousand dollars, the amount of selfishness is astounding, and when I have mentioned that billionaires actually claim things like that on their taxes there have actually been bootlickers defending them

Kind of like when you're asked how much you made the year before and it doesn't take into account your employment situation now. This happened to me and my husband.

All is missing is proof DNA and how many times are you sexually active and with. Please list in the next columns please. List date, time, and partners names....just saying.

Precisely. I always wanna scream at those people, "If I had any of those things, do you really think I'd be *here*?!"

Sara Williamson so true

and how is a poor person gonna game the system? take advantage, yeah, but game it? hack it? get real.

"How ever many times it takes us to decide you're not."

Yeah LBJ said he would have " those N*****s voting Democrat for 100 years....' You think he could do that without poverty?

Strange how many "poverty-stricken" can make a business off the taxpayers.

No stranger than the multi generational recipients have made a lifestyle out of receiving government largesse.

They can't make a business out of poverty if you stop depending on them to fix poverty. Depending on government is dangerous.

@@kevina3136 Not only dangerous, but stupid.

Yeah they like messing you up like that.

sounds about right

Same thing happened to me last fall. I can't reach my worker. It's been months. I took two buses to reach the office. They turned me away: "systems down." The phone system and web site are jacked up. Those benefits were helping me. I'm already working two jobs and still under the "poverty" line. I appreciate hearing from others who struggle with this. The system is complicated and frustrating so people will just give up and go away.

RandomComments THAT PART

And it wasn’t a very good trap.

@@HaimTabibi You must not have been paying very good attention then

@@macgyverthediver5250 on the contrary. I pay excellent attention. I am just not biased. It is important to be intellectually honest in our posts, MacgyverTheDiver.

@@HaimTabibi Which is exactly why I have been this entire time and it disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

There's a youtuber that suggested that for every home or building that gets demolished a vegetable garden gets planted in its place. That way those neighborhoods always have access to healthy food.

How about you get a job and work like the rest of us

Is anyone going hungry? Most people in this country are over weight. And if you are hungry it most likely because you waste money on drugs/alcohol or you had children you couldn’t afford and you think other people should have to pay you to raise them. How about you act responsibly and get a job. Problem solved.

White bread and donuts are cheap. These Republicans are criminals. I needed food stamps 35 years ago. I was pregnant and my husband's union was on strike. We are the richest country in the world and we cannot feed or house people who are less fortunate than us. Shame on us!

Lorrie why do I have to pay for YOUR child?

Mr. Emmons She is a mother and does understand that things are expensive but let's not lose sight of the fact that this woman is making a $174000 a year has a base pay Which is paid by the taxpayer, not all of us make that kind of money, I have a decent paying job that I've been on for 40 years and I don't make a 174000 a year

Let's not lose sight of the fact that she is a well educated Harvard trained lawyer and professor, an acknowledged expert in her field, who must maintain two residences in some of the most expensive places to live and incur ancillary personal expenses related to her job serving the American people and makes only $174,000

@@pmclaughlin4111 I'm sure there's quite a few perks following all of these politicians sir let's not lose sight of that

She's a rude, obnoxious member of the House. And don't forget, she's still getting subsidized housing from a college she was working at years ago

lol some one drinking the coo laid

Yeah, it's not the Congress woman's business... But if you are claiming the need for food stamps - it is the state's business.

@@meeeowch6200 as the saying goes... "A poor man has NOTHING to lose with a Revolution "

It is her business and she's right these applications are made to belittle you and make you embarrassed for asking for help, yet the CEO of banks and other large corporations (republicans) the rich get bail outs and tax cuts, the applications for them are not as invasive, but hard working peoples incomes now do not keep up with the cost of living, like rent increases $100 month and yes without hesitation but not pay wages, food prices sky rocketed up twice as much thanks to tariffs, so trying to keep food on the table to feed your family gets you punished just for asking for help for the problem they created. So you can chill with the self-righteous BS!

@@msladyboyd1 I was hearing the same thing about Yang's Dividend. Some people in media saying the poor and middle class were gonna abuse it but all these rich corporations are getting bail puts left and right.

Meee Owch Oh but it is... It’s her business to inquire about why SNAP is coming up with questions for potential recipients they themselves can barely answer. Don’t want Congress to call you out on something that is a potential ethics issue, don’t work for the government. Don’t want to answer personal questions about your finances to a government official, move to the moon.

HE wasn't applying for food stamps. Her questions were inappropriate and invasive. I bet she wouldn't have answered them either.

stripedtigress “hi I’m dumb and have poor reasoning skills”...that’s you, do better.

@@stripedtigress That's the entire point. She was reading questions that are asked of food stamp applicants.

He was furious

@@epiccollision How about instead of name-calling, you try to start a constructive conversation instead?

If you need help, quit complaining about what you need to get your handouts. So disgusting the entitlement of people. You want everything given to you but have the audacity to complain about how to get it.

But the detailed application process helps them weed out those other people whose pockets would be lined, thereby maximizing the number of less fortunate people who can receive SNAP benefits.

Jacqueline Ludwig a gun is a constitutional right, but free money and forcing a doctor to treat you are not.

Liam P. lololol “Forcing a doctor to treat you.” Healthcare is a human right. Everyone deserves it.

Jacqueline Ludwig, perfect point! Why this country treats Healthcare as a luxury and not a necessity is something I’ll never understand

@@alexanderofmesopotamia2952 I'm 42yrd old and I have yet to need the use of a gun but have needed a Dr more in my life.

Alexander Of Mesopotamia look man I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about people. Healthcare not being a human right isn’t some kind of objective truth. If our government and our country simply decided that yes, Healthcare is a human right, then healthcare would be a human right. And frankly, we don’t have to look far to find examples of countries where free, or much more accessible, healthcare exists and works.

Imagine if they all were like her. We'd be able to sleep at night.

There are more congresswomen just as knowledgeable, confident, and persistent as Katie. The quad and AOC are fearless as well.

to give more free stuff? get a job

@@baronkingdom570 grow a soul.

We can slash Pentagon budget by 2/3. Half a trillion dollars saved. They will cry like Banshees, but if we stick to our guns we can make big changes (edit) no pun intended (edit again) can I say Banshees? oops probably not

Randi Young just look at California 😂

@@kt550 What does that have to do with anything? Just look at the work Katie Porter is doing in congress.

She really is incredible

I watch her segments just to give me hope.

A student of our honorable Elizabeth Warren.

I share your admiration sir. There are a lot of great women in the congress who are fighting for the people.

That's exactly how it feels. Just imagine how intrusive and embarrassing it is just for $355 to assist in feeding your family.

Absolutely I’m on 90 a year and I don’t have an issue paying higher tax to support and help those that needed. Why some may ask, simply because I was at the bottom like many others working my way up to self support, and if it wasn’t for government help I would have been on the streets at this very moment.

Porter, she's great

Amy Sternheim you may need to read again 👍

Look at Romneys history with the FLDS. Then ask how the FLDS got away with 12 million in food stamp fraud.

Food stamps really aren't an issue in her very wealthy district. What is an issue is the insane cost of housing there and the continual crowding.

Katie Porter, I wish we had more reps like you! Thank you for being you!

The average american is not poor. If you need food stamps, you have to answer some questions.

@@PulledPurk what lol

@@gregcronin7734 except it's not 10 mins, it's hours in line for those without internet service, only to be given attitude and sent away for missing information. The process is demoralizing and dehumanizing when literally all they need is money for food.

@@gregcronin7734 Do you think that application takes 10 minutes to complete?

And then someone has to get back to you for an interview where they ask you these things all over again trying to catch you in a lie. It's a mess.

@@isaiahcaston4539 And all too often, even if you're accepted into the program, you have to wait until the start of the next month to even GET anything. How does that help when you have a family to feed NOW?

It has to do with grilling poor people to see if they "deserve" the money while corporations, like ExxonMobile get $2.2 billion a year for simply existing.

Democrats want you to starve

Even that is horrible! Wait in line outside for 2+hours no matter the weather - rain, snow, 10° or 90° then most of the food so unhealthy. Bakery cakes that no one bought or picked up, 3day old bread, canned beans. No fresh fruit or vegetables ever. Sugar cereals, chips and cheetos and lots of boxed dry mac and cheese. Anyone with diabetes and most seniors should not eat 95% of what they give out.

That's what it seemed like. It looked like he didn't even know what his electric bill is

@Keenan ThomasYou Are So On Point with that one...

He knows, so he it’s fault he has a good job! Years ago recipients had to pay to receive food-stamps!

Dee32 dontcare how many years ago was that?!? Do tell.

mzn y it has been over 20 years and time has nothing to do with it! All able-bodied sure work and shouldn’t have a problem with answering! To many people in this country feel entitled....

To prevent fraud. Enabling sloth isn't compassion. Encouraging self-sufficiency is.

Those questions are so you don't steal from the government what are you people from Mars. yeah everybody's honest everybody works on the merit system here in America You people are nuts

@@josephzummo9685 But the man who worked '4 years' on that program seems down right INSULTED that she would ask him for such information. 6 pages of financial information to get food assistance, most job applications cannot ask half of those questions, it is considered inappropriate. I think the application for my home mortgage wasn't any more invasive than that.

@@antiquegirl6505 you may be right. But that's how important things are in this world. Just that important. so we go through things because it's important that the right people get the money that they need or food stamps that they need or help that they need and not scammed out by some jerk who showed up in a Cadillac Escalade just to builk the system so be it if it's important enough to you then go the extra mile and educate yourself we have an entire nation of uninformed people. You know what America's favorite saying is? "I didn't know"

@@josephzummo9685 Thank you for your reply....my point was that the 'political suit' guy seemed annoyed that Katie Porter was asking so many personal questions. He didn't realize that this much information is needed to get assistance. I remember being behind a very overdressed lady in the grocery, back in the 70's. Her leather coat would have cost more than a couple months of my rent. She got her steaks, oysters, chops etc with food stamps. The wine and cigarettes were bought with cash. After I paid for my bread, milk, and few things I could afford, I walked to my car in the lot, as she drove past me in her shiny big Cadillac. So yeah, I have witnessed the fraud side of it. But a six page application still seems excessive.

I was about to say the same.

YASSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

How about a Porter/AOC OR AOC/Porter ticket in ‘24? . That’s a Dream Team for me.

Exactly

Yeah pelosi

You don't understand--if he took it out--on that technicality he could immediately be charged with Contempt of Congress--he was put in a legal quandary position "cunning snare" by her and it does not reflect well on HER on that issue not him. She is a petty tyrant here asking questions not pertinent to her purview of the reason he was there. Playing to the mob--so if all you and the 601 upvotes liked it you know what you are.

Nice to see a law maker that doesn't have a Racist Agenda.

​@@jakesnake165 believe me or not Nancy Pelosi achived a lot for both democrats & republican. People just jealous/don't like her because she is women. There's reason why she is head of the democrats this long.

I'll wait.

Some people require saviging. Good for her.

But also at the same time, you’re applying to get free government cash. It should matter how many kids you have and how much money you make. Helps figure out how much you should receive, when I was a child my Dad was paid under the table making a decent check. But he was able to gain the system by applying as homeless with 3 children. He would receive $927 a month while not taxing into the system. People do lie, it happens.

@@kennedysuggs4691 Those intent on lying can come up with answers easily. Most are not lying. To be required to complete an invasive application, on top of other requirements such as an interview, is humiliating. That a few scammers cheat should not be used to harm the majority who do not.

@Sheila R How so? It’s free money

Then wouldn't it be easier to just fill out a job application?

Braddon Schulze as it should be.

@@dltenboer Most people applying for SNAP benefits already have a job. Recipients who don't are generally people who aren't expected to work (children, the elderly, the disabled).

It is not worth the effort or BS that you have to go through. Just get an additional job to supplement your income or start a garden. Ms. L. Churchill

Some % of people will LIE on job apps. A HUGE % of people LIE or skew their real life situations to get ill gotten spoils on ALL gov dole program applications!!!!

@Terri Freeman Yes we did Terri. We did some good things but took our eye off the ball. Thing is, we were brain washed from the womb and failed to recognize or got up in the greed and deception to make the correction . The younger generation don't have that problem. This is why I'm for Bernie.

Baby boomers were told their entire lives that this is the best country in the world, blessed by god. NOT !

@Terri Freeman We did.

@@anthonybrowne3942 Everyone is indoctrinated, one way or another, from birth. We all must fight indoctrination, embrace free thinking and skepticism, and instruct our children how to use logic. Another thing which would truly make America great would be the reduction of religious influence in our country. We must tell our children to ask questions. Always.

@@augustawalden5538 we should also make sure our children are not entitled to tax dollars and have the audacity to complain about how to get them. Teach them no one owes them anything.

Cute... she’s not running. But yah

Tik Tok 🤣🤣🤣

I’d vote for her in a heartbeat! She’s intelligent and she’s powerful. She’d make an excellent president

William Alexander, i remember trying to get some welfare assistance to pay my rent and the clerk told me I had to find find a cheaper apartment. That was in New York city where at the time a 2 bedroom (so called) was going for 850 a month.

I would have answered "In a shower." That's INSANE!

An actual question on applications about preparing meals - "Do you cook alone or with others?" or shared facilities, bathroom, kitchen. They are one question away from, "If you use soap, what soap do you use?"

Very invasive, but if you were to prioritize people would you help the person that can shower in their own place or the one that has to shower at a gym? One person is significantly more disadvantaged than the other.

@@WPFreeinternet THAT is not the point. What kind of thinking/logic is that? ......hungry is hungry.

People applying for benefits should provide ALL of that information. Her questioning was idiotic.

@@dennisgroves6884 Why do they need to provide ALL of that information? What purpose would that fulfill? I get some basic information is needed, such as current income and if you have children etc but you don't need all of that.

She is boss

Most people that have food stamps don’t have any of that stuff

David Wade But also at the same time, you’re applying to get free government cash. It should matter how many kids you have and how much money you make. Helps figure out how much you should receive, when I was a child my Dad was paid under the table making a decent check. But he was able to gain the system by applying as homeless with 3 children. He would receive $927 a month while not taxing into the system. People do lie, it happens.

she is a BEAST when she starts asking questions!!!!

We need her integrity in the White House. If we had this kind of common sense leadership across America, this country would be AWESOME!!! I wish she ran for President!!!

@SierraPhantom Do you troll on every comment on this feed? Your opinions are just cheep and fake burns and you're a non-contributor to actually conversations.

I'm not even American but she's one of my top 5 politicical crushes 😂 she's so empassioned I love it!!

@@born2doitright me too. I would vote for her

Thank you Rich Republican

I see what you did there.

I understood that reference.

Lol no she didn't. Those were all logical and valid questions to be on a food stamps application

Its free money, heaven forbid you spend an hour on the application for free money.... seriously are we trying to make complete pansies out of poor people? Wait until you try to close an escrow, now thats alot of pages, stooges!

Admire? Lol. You smoking crack?

@@lawrencetierce8244 are you?

StarrShine Preston no no nooooooooo

This was stupid, she has a good point but this was stupid.

He has the info at home,where people fill it out and return it in a postage paid envelope

Arrogance

She's absolutely awesome 👍👏

Dignity & Pride are seen as being on the same sliding scale by most otherwise nice ppl. It's a shameful aspect of American life.

EXACTLY!

yuppp they hate being treated the way they treat others. it's messed up, if you have savings in an account, you're not allowed SNAP. So in other words, you aren't allowed to move up

They dont have to do it publicly

katelyn ast nor your two cents. Wake up!!!

capitalism for ya... got to have poor to have rich.

That's funny. That's almost the exact percentage of people with an IQ lower than 80. Willing to bet holding down a job is pretty hard for them. It has nothing to do with society.

Jonathan Aliff Are you scared? Is that why you’re trying to put other people down? Because if they’re poor for some tangible reason, then you couldn’t possibly end up that way too? Or are you just trying to come up with a good excuse to be selfish? I honestly hope it’s the former.

Im confused, are you getting mad at the government for providing aid like every other country does?

junkybabes First World Country in what?

Gypsy Curls it's socialism for the rich and large corporations and capitalism for the poor, working class and middle class.

And still your state keeps vote for Republicans. Against your own interest.

Gypsy Curls: And don’t forget that farmers hit by Trump’s trade wars are more and more dependent on government payments...they got over 22 billion in subsidies in 2019...the most they’ve gotten in 14 years. Most of that money went to the biggest agribusinesses, while money was cut for families on food stamps. You can bet the recipients of these billions will vote for Trump again.

That 1% keeps our politicians fat and lazy

@@christopherherrera921 Eastern Washington is mostly Republican not Western Washington which is mostly Democratic. Trust me we try and vote Democratic.

And since then has cost the U.S. 27 trillion dollars look it up not a made up figure. 6 pages for $20-$100 a month of SNAP.

Jos, imagine that, the SNAP program cost more than the US combined debt currently at $22 Trillion, I’m glad you’re here to tell us these things. Try to read the CBO figures (Congressional Budget Office) and get back with me...

@@jamesmartin1895 He said that the 2008 Bailout cost $27 Trillion, not SNAP.

They really do want to kill off the poor! This is so DISGUSTING!

LOLLLL

They want to discourage people from applying. Every and anyway they can.

CarolP.....just had to comment sweet lady. God bless you. Sorry u have to be dragged thru this to get a lil assistance. Huggin u from Texas.

Thank you for sharing. Bless your heart. Im sorry for everything you have to go through. Much love to you!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Well... to be fair, you could still be a student despite the age... but the pregnancy question is a no brainer though

Also Washington Snap is the easiest I have ever seen. I was in and out of that office within 20 mins and I lived in Seattle when I was on them. All they wanted to know was was I currently working, had any dependents, bills I paid and for how much. That was it.

Its criminal offense

Say it louder for the ones in the back.

Unfortunately yes

Gimme my free stuff! Don't axe me no questions! I deserve it!

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And in the state I live in you have to have your employer fill out a form so they and your coworkers know your on Food Stamps. People don't know what people getting aid from the gov't have to go through. It's a shame.

Murica!

Well are you asking to make it easier so that more people can abuse the system????

@Dark Lady Your assumptions are erroneous. I am retired. I am not on food stamps or SNAP. And have never been in my entire life. But what I do have is EMPATHY for those who need food assistance for whatever physical or mental conditions they may have that causes food insecurity. Conditions that may also totally prevent working, thereby not having enough the minimum income needed by all humans to survive in the U.S. Please make yourself become informed of the needs of those less fortunate than yourself.

Dark Lady is that you Sylvanas? 😱

Thinking the same recently. On a KP binge!

Why, because she complained about requiring to fill out standard paperwork to get food stamps. Last I checked, too many people who don't need to be are on food stamps right now, and quite frankly, that number should be considerably cut.

Because she's the only one who has the balls to put reality in the faces of the super rich

supercj12 So what’s your point? People can pay for most of their food, but not everything a growing family needs, so they should be cut off?

@dino macioci Hey there's an idea, with so many homeless people in California, what good is food stamps anyways when it doesn't even work for the people that need it the most.

The American people must demand these liberties, for they have been taken from them by the ultra rich.

Beautifully said

@Salt Cube That moment you don't know what communism is.

Sebastian Timothy Pardon? How pathetically selfish are you to believe that people shouldn’t have FOOD?

The measure of a country is how it treats its weakest citizen. The USA is failing miserably.

@Sasi Helen yes because he is over paid and is able to

Positive Energy 👏🏻👏🏻

Exactly!!!

ONLY a problem if you are LIAR as most on dole ARE

Tick tock! I couldn't believe it!😂

The kicker is at the end.....you have to give MORE information to get 4,800 dollars as a Taxpayer funded SNAP recipient......than you do to get 174,000 as a Taxpayer funded member of Congress!

kaiyoko Baby tick tock I’ll wait

She's no joke lol

@@velvetrose7729 That truly was priceless! I was just waiting for the completely idiotic questions about : Are you or any member of your household a fugitive from justice? I have SOO many times wanted to fill that in with the word... "maybe?"... Love this woman! Peace all! ☮✌🔥🤘😎💨💨💨

And dig out, make photocopies of every piece of documentation required...then travel to, wait for and attend the face to face interview with a social services employee... especially if they're employed and have to take time off from work... not to mention use public transportation which at least doubles the time they have to take off.

Why would he be required to answer every question on the application? He's not applying for ANYTHING! How stupid can you people be?

@@alexandraabercrombie3726 God forbid you have to fill out 6 whole hloages to get a free money from the govt

@@alexandraabercrombie3726 yeah the other option is to get up and work for everything you get soooo what's your point?!?! Aww it's not easy enough to get free money from the tax payers?!?!

@@stevemasterson7776 ... Six pages would be a blessing in the state I currently live in... it's somewhere between sixteen and twenty here. I know because I used to volunteer at domestic abuse and long-term shelters for women with children. I've gone through the whole process with countless families and if you think it's simply a matter of filling out a few pages and mailing them in, you're wrong. The amount of documentation that is required... every six months...is literally ridiculous. People's birthday certificates, social security numbers, state IDs, etc., don't change. The paperwork is supposed to be scanned into the system. So why should these documents have to be submitted time and again? The vast majority of the questions can be answered as N/A because they don't have retirement accounts, real estate holdings, etc. If I hadn't worked with people in these situations I would probably be onboard with your argument... because I wouldn't have had the experience of seeing the system from the other side. People in need are made to jump through hoops repeatedly for a paltry sum if money every month. Unfortunately for many, that paltry sum is the difference between putting a little meat on the table a couple times a week and feeding their family ramen and macaroni and cheese all month. Just as an example, I know a man in NY state who is in his seventies, living on social security and raising his grandson because mom and dad are both drug addicts. He receives Medicaid for the grandson... and $71 per month in SNAP benefits to feed him. The courts don't force the parents to pay child support or threaten them with jail time for not doing do and the state makes him jump through hoops for what little benefits he receives for being a stand-up guy and raising his grandson instead of letting him go into the foster care system... which would cost the state a h*ll of a lot more. It isn't right. I'm a Republican and I agree that we need welfare reform. However, Democrat's idea of welfare reform is free stuff for everybody and Republican's idea is to make it so difficult to obtain that people either don't qualify or give up trying due to all the requirements and red tape. Some states literally rig the system and require just enough hours to qualify for benefits but have their poverty threshold set so low that if a person works the minimum required hours at minimum wage...they make too much money to ANY benefits... according to the state. These people can't afford health insurance. These people can't afford food after whatever bills they manage to juggle on a monthly basis are paid. The working poor face this and more every day of every month. I could also very easily list off some examples of people I have encountered who have done nothing but play the system. There are drug addicts in my state that receive aid and housing... nothing wrong with them, but a particular organization that makes all it's money from Medicare and Medicaid routinely put them on it and sign them up for anything from methadone treatments, psychiatric care, individual therapy, group therapies... and the list goes on. I know personally know of illegals... stretching back to the sixties... who came here pregnant and with four other children, no husband, who dropped an anchor baby and drew benefits right up to Reagan granting amnesty to all illegals and continued to draw benefits throughout the nineties (because when the youngest was getting ready to turn eighteen, she conveniently dropped another kid)... never worked a day...then drew social security...and continues to do so. Another group I encountered was a woman living with her boyfriend who had a sixteen year old daughter (who had just had a baby) and whose brother was also living with them in a single wide trailer. Each one claimed benefits, two of them were working under the table, the state was paying for the boyfriend to go to school to become a mechanic, they all received Medicaid, SNAP totaling over $1000/month combined, three of them were receiving cash aid and they would STILL individually go to food banks every month. Oh, and the sixteen year old received WIC for herself and the baby. Yeah, some people scam the system...and it p*sses me off. But does that mean that we should make it d*mn near impossible for those that have paid into the system and continue to pay into the system to receive the benefits they are legitimately entitled to as citizens. It always amazes me tha many seem to have no problem with the $100's of millions we give out in corporate welfare every year... but money to feed hungry citizens? The whole system is screwed up.

Was this on the app or during the interview?

@@desireedickson2057 interview

I feel like its embarrassing enough needing the help. Not like i was some lazy female doing nothing with my life.i worked and payed taxes. Jus hit a financial bump at the time. SNAP isn't a lifestyle, its temporary help for a person in need. I don't understand the point of some of the questions(outside of finances). I jus remember how i felt. Walked out with my head down... it made me feel like less of person

how much student loans do you have?

Wow I’m so sorry that you had to go through that

Shame on you!

...almost?...

So kinda like voting in some states if you're a minority?

Dank'ntrans : back in 2008 during the global financial crisis my spouse and I were suddenly without jobs - for over a year. We were repeatedly denied SNAP benefits despite literally drowning in debt. The banks that CAUSED the meltdown automatically were approved for bailout funds at ZERO INTEREST with no paperwork required.

They do purposely try to deny benefits. I receive SSI & SNAP. I have to reapply each year for SNAP despite the fact that I was BORN with my disability, so yes, it is considered "permanent." Every single year, regardless of when I turn in my application, I go at least a month without benefits because they drop the ball on something EVERY TIME. It's incredibly frustrating.

@@scarlettethefieryphoenix925 socially distant solidarity fistbump. (i don't get SNAP because i'm on SSDI and my cats don't count as kids so i'm probably not broke enough to make it worth trying, but if SSI forms are anywhere near as bad as SSDI forms that has to be a nightmare.)

When the interviewer asked me that same question. I said I don’t know with money??? That you guys say I have to much of??? So I’m just as confused.

@@catherineyanke8025 you both seem confused. Hence this is why you are at the bottom of life applying for SNAP.

@@professionalcommenter5 Go back to school shorty. Nobody's impressed with you here.

@@briannab4037 lol still can’t figure out how to fill out the applications huh? Go back to sleep

@@professionalcommenter5 Sleep? How early is your bedtime?

Alicia Robinson That’s horrible. Plenty of money for the military but not enough for the needy. I actually hate this country

My 70 year old mother only gets $15

Nyx Seriously? I honestly would ask her if she is willing to move out of the country . There are lovely retirement areas outside the US !

Alicia Robinson That’s so upsetting. Even worse to know some people lie about their income and marital status to get welfare, yet people who truly need it don’t get it.

Sara Ford Not trying to be offensive but if she can afford it why is she on food stamps

you are paying too much in rent.

@@Lopyswine depends upon where you live. Take a look at rent in NYC...

$1300 a month is well above national minimum wage for a full time worker, too. It's not nearly enough to live on, and yet too much for government aid a lot of the time

Lol to much for rent the cheapest here in cali is 1500 for 400-500sq feet if your lucky

@@Lopyswine It's called Boston. Where are you?

Ghost what? Of course they are! How can you write off hundreds of millions of people as not “everyday citizens”? You most definitely currently work with, assuming employment, someone who benefits from some form of government aid.

She could of answered the guys question and gotten to the point waaaay faster. Instead she opts for a power move. Really? "Only I ask questions here" cmon, she was going to tell him anyways and get to the point, why draw it out? ALSO... I get 6 pages is a lot, but you Are asking for free money, from a program that has a finite budget. They have to figure out of all their applicants WHO IS THE MOST NEEDY they aren't doing it just to be sadistic. That being said, I am all in favour of cutting red tape, but she could of just said that up front and then work to pass a bill that cuts red tape. Oh yeah, kinda like Trump did? For every regulation you make you have to cut two? Sounds like they have the same ideas..

Exactly what I was thinking. This lady a gd legend

@Walter L I think you should add more countries to your list. Israel is not the only country that gets US welfare.

She was the same woman who got covid 19 testing to be free too, even for people without insurance.

I agree.

@Salt Cube r/wooosh

@Jerome Lund Doesn't mean people should live in poverty

Salt Cube Yeah tell that to rich people lobbying in Congress. Tell that to corporate asking for bailouts.

@Salt Cube 30 yr old WHITE males live off the Government, NOT the Grid!!! Did you get that SOCIALIST STIMULUS CHECK YET???