Food stamps?This woman should be ashammed of herself and locked up.

Are you concerned about the content of the article or that it was on hubby's Facebook?

Kudzu,
It's the article that caught my eye and I felt it was worth posting. I just stated the FB because neither of us know what city or state this was in, so I can't explain the article further.

I have no words.......

There is a lot of fraud out there. It's too bad.

There's a website right above the headline. This is Brunswick.

You don't suppose the 'victim' exagerated what was lost, do you? LOL

That really ticks me off!

At first,I thought as some of you have, but then I rembered how many have had the funds to buy such things,or been given a gift in past times. What gets me is how can people leave stuff in plane sight like that and then get upset someone takes it.

It appears to be from GA, as in the upper right hand corner it another article listed Glynn County, Being curious, I googled it and got GA.. New Brunswick appears to be a city in this county.
As to the food stamp issue? We do not know why or where the amount of cash came from Maybe that is all the person had and saved up to pay for something, bills, rent. We do not have the right to judge this.
Jasdip, thanks for posting this to remind all of us to not leave purses in the car for all to see, and yes I am guilty of that in this small town occasionally.
Marie

I like to watch shows like Judge Judy, Alex, Joe Brown, and Mathis.

Quite often there is a person, either the plaintiff or defendant, who, looking very healthy, very openly says they are on Disability.

My understanding is that, whatever the disability is, if you are able to work, AT SOMETHING, you can not get disability benefits. I know jobs are hard to find, but there are jobs available.

One example:in one case a fellow said he is on disability, and showed his disability . . . the tip of one finger had been cut off! Granted it happened at work, but still...

So I am now at the point of believing almost anything; even maybe to the point of the lady with all that money, etc. is not able to carry her pocketbook into the house!

And if I'm wrong about the Disability rules, I'm sure someone will clear that up for me.

Sue

"Quite often there is a person, either the plaintiff or defendant, who, looking very healthy, very openly says they are on Disability."

It always bothers me when folks get outraged because of other people who "look healthy" but who are considered to be disabled. Unless you know the other person's health history, you have no right to judge them.

Could you tell by looking at me that I have a heart condition? No.

Could you tell by looking at me that I have two bulging discs in my lower back that make mobility painful and difficult? No.

Could you tell by looking at me that if I move my left arm more than four inches away from my body that I lose circulation to that arm? No.

Could you tell by looking at me that all movement of my head/neck, whether up/down or left/right, is all on one disc -- that all other vertebrae in my neck are toally locked? No.

Now, I'm not on disability. I have a full-time job as an Active Directory/Domain administrator for a large network. I sit in front of a computer all day long. My job doesn't entail doing anything that aggravates any of my problems.

Do some folks take advantage of the system and collect disability when they probably shouldn't? Absolutely.

But don't just assume that someone really isn't disabled just because they don't look disabled.

Chisue, I was thinking the same thing about exaggerating the value of her property to get a bigger insurance reimbursement.

Sue Va, I know of at least one person who was on disability from a desk job but was driving a school van and still getting disability payments.

Well, with my commercial insurance disability policy, I could, but under policy terms I was NOT obligated, to take a job that paid me less than what I was earning from my pre-disability job. If I deigned to take such a lower-paying job, the disability company would still be obligated to pay me the difference every month. So yes a person could take a lower-paying job, but still collect disability. Depends how a particular policy reads.

Somebody ought to send that to Leno or Letterman. One of them does a segment on his nightly program that showcases stuff like this.

Of course, it could be photoshopped. My own husband has stuff like that on his facebook all the time.

My cousin, who lives with my husband and me, is severely disabled by a psychiatric condition and has been unable to work for the past 30 years. But, unless you pay close attention to his unkempt appearance or his mannerisms, his disability is not obvious to the general public. BTW, we had to jump through *many* hoops to prove that he qualified for SSI, and the claim had to be documented by his psychiatrist.

Being on SSI makes him eligible for Medicaid, which was our most important goal, as his medication expenses total over $700 per month. And in my state, that makes him eligible for Food Stamps also--at approximately $100 per month. Since I do all the food shopping, I carry his card in my wallet. Although I don't have an expensive purse or carry huge amounts of cash in my wallet, I'm an average-looking middle-class woman, and I could, of course, be vulnerable to a purse-snatching or robbery, like the woman in the news article.

By the way, there are folks who serve as "trustees" for more than one disabled person, and there are many disabled persons who have family members do the shopping for them--because they can't do it themselves. That might explain the plural "cards" that the woman was carrying in her purse.

Certainly, there are people who commit fraud in all kinds of ways. But the casual observer cannot always see disability, and there are other explanations for what was reported in that article.

Sue