Kate Briquelet and Isabel Vincent, two reporters for the New York Post, recently investigated what some food stamp recipients do with the food they purchase on the taxpayer’s dime. What they found was astounding. They were packing the food in barrels and shipping it back to their home countries. Evidently, the practice is fairly common as most Caribbean stores stock wooden or cardboard barrels right in their stores.
This brings up a few interesting points. First, the practice is against the EBT rules. Secondly, if they can afford to use their food stamps to ship food overseas, are they really eligible in the first place? And lastly, since it is a fairly open secret, why hasn't Nanny Bloomberg done something about it? There is no way of knowing just how many food stamp dollars are finding their way out of the country and New York City is probably not the only place this is happening.
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