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> [Mejia] says he knows he broke the rules by allowing customers to buy on credit, and he accepts the agency’s decision to permanently disqualify him from SNAP.
by UncleEntity 8y ago
> [Mejia] says he knows he broke the rules by allowing customers to buy on credit, and he accepts the agency’s decision to permanently disqualify him from SNAP.
So he broke the rules, not in an attempt to defraud the system but by helping out the neighbors by giving them credit on purchases.
...which I could see as causing a problem, you spend all your benefits for next month, pay off the bill when they put money on the card, spend all your benefits for next month, rinse and repeat.
- protomyth 8y agonot in an attempt to defraud the system but by helping out the neighbors by giving them credit on purchases At this point, he cannot prove that was the case since he doesn't have records of the items purchased. He might be on the side of angels, but he sure is doing everything a scammer would do. Plus, the whole pay next month thing is just fundamentally a problem (what happens if eligibility is lost?) in addition to the treadmill you pointed out.
- geofft 8y ago> Plus, the whole pay next month thing is just fundamentally a problem (what happens if eligibility is lost?) Then the store owner can't cash in the food stamp and has extended credit to the customer, which is a problem for the store owner but not for the food stamp agency. Why should the food stamp agency get involved?
- protomyth 8y agoBecause its specifically is outlawed and the store owner is going to try to collect which is the reason it was outlawed in the first place. There is a long history of people / companies extending credit in a manner that would indenture people to the people / company. See any reference to company stores in the US. That's the environment that the law was setup in.