Washington sends $1 food stamp checks to 250,000

[StinkerBell]

Washington sends $1 food stamp checks to 250,000
The Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. The state of Washington sent out $1 checks to the 250,000 food stamp recipients in the state.

The director of the Community Services Division for the Department of Social and Health Services, Leo Ribas, says the checks mailed Feb. 17 trigger an additional $43 million in federal food benefits. They also connect recipients to an energy assistance program.

Ribas says the $1 check is a one-time move to leverage the federal money. He says next year the state will be able to trigger the federal assistance through a routine deposit in food stamp accounts

Knowing our government I am sure it cost them at least 1.25 per check to send out.

[glenn kangiser]

If they don't spend it they won't get more - in fact they may get less if the need is not there.

Come on, Stinky - don't you know how to run a government? hmm

[annamay]

yeah, isn't that crazy?? I live here but apparently in order to get 43 million they had to give at least one dollar in energy assistance to each person who needed it but they haven't said whether the same people who were sent the $1 would get real energy assistance once the 43 mllion comes in.... hmmm, I think that would come to about $172 dollars for each of the $250,000. I don't know about you but I bet those people don't get one more dime in energy assistance! Government sucks....
This is why I want to downsize my life and build small so I hopefully never have to rely on government help. Thats the plan anyway......

[glenn kangiser]

The IRS lady told me too operate my business in such a manner that I never was obligated to the IRS again.  In 1983 about.  I try to practice what she preached at all times.  I don't want anything they have to offer as they have to take twice as much as they give me back. 

[annamay]

sounds like good advice Glen!

 

[glenn kangiser]

I try to make sure I lose enough to get all of my wife's withholding back also.