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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I respect that you support SNAP benefits, and I agree that helping families who are struggling to afford food is important. But supporting the idea behind SNAP doesn’t mean we should ignore the serious problems in how related funding is being managed.
There is corruption and inefficiency behind some of these federal nutrition programs, and pretending everything is working perfectly does a disservice to the very people SNAP is supposed to help. If the system were functioning the way politicians claim, we wouldn’t still see food banks overwhelmed, families waiting in long lines, and working people relying on donated meals just to get through the week.
Supporting SNAP shouldn’t mean automatically defending every layer of bureaucracy surrounding it. It should mean making sure the money actually reaches families — not getting lost in administrative waste, questionable contracts, or programs that sound good on paper but fail in practice. When people talk about these issues, they’re not attacking SNAP itself; they’re calling out a system that needs transparency, accountability, and reform.
If we truly care about fighting hunger, we should be willing to look honestly at where the funding goes, where it’s failing, and who benefits from the inefficiencies. Real support for struggling families means fixing what’s broken — not pretending everything works just because a particular political party says it does.[/quote]

Fraud rates in SNAP have always been low, and I would absolutely wager they are no higher (and probably lower) than fraud in ANY OTHER government program. I know of brothers who were farmers who grew potatoes. They collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal crop insurance benefits via a combination of treating their own warehoused potato harvest with a septic tank chemical that caused them to rot as well as by using certain cultivation methods (I forget the specifics) to expose fields to frost, also causing rot. These practices went on for several years before someone snitched on them. There was a guy in the next town who fabricated 3 separate companies to get PPP loans during Covid. Cigna and other Medicare Advantage insurers have fraudulently claimed chronic illnesses (that did not exist) in participants in order to claim higher reimbursement rates from the government. Why is it people seem to reserve their ire for programs used by people who are going to the grocery store? [/quote]

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