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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 524090" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Susie it was so much fun. It ended up being my dream job. When I first started I was a regular caseworker who helped clients get TANF checks which is the welfare checks and shortly after that food stamps combined with the TANF checks so that people didnt have to go to two departments to apply for each thing. When you applied for TANF, you got your check, your food stamps and medicaid all together. </p><p></p><p>Soon after that, I was placed in a unit that worked with clients that had gone to work but were still eligible for up to 9 months of TANF checks if they reported their jobs within a timely manner. They would also get child care started immediately. It was to promote working instead of sitting on the dole. </p><p></p><p>Within two years of being employed I got hired into the Fraud Department when they got a grant from the government to increase the size of the department in order to crack down on fraud in Social Services. I loved it. Sometimes we worked with the Department of Agriculture who actually is the one who investigates food stamps on a county and state level. This is working on cracking down with stores who buy food stamps or sell things that shouldnt be bought with food stamps. We would go in undercover and attempt to buy things with food stamps that shouldnt be bought or watch people sell their food stamps at little stores. You would be amazed at these little stores that had almost zero inventory but took in thousands and thousands of dollars of food stamps each month but the inventory every month of food stuff never changed. We would go in every month and the cans of food was dusty and out of date...lol. They were selling gas and beer and tee shirts with food stamps. We loved busting them. </p><p></p><p>We had a program when we went to EBT cards that would show us what people bought and we could see how people bought a whole cart of food at one register and then not ten minutes later bought another whole cart of food at another register. We would go to that store and pull the videos and often see another person using the same card. Or see another person handing the cardholder money in the store! Perfectly understandable to forget a loaf of bread or an item or two and half to run back in for something but not two entire carts in 5 or 10 minutes. That means someone else is also shopping and the cardholder just goes back and grabs the cart and hits another line to go through. </p><p></p><p>Oh the stories I could tell! </p><p></p><p>And for anyone to think I would give up that job that I adored just to sit here at home, in pain, making about 1/4th of what I made there is out of their ever loving mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 524090, member: 1514"] Susie it was so much fun. It ended up being my dream job. When I first started I was a regular caseworker who helped clients get TANF checks which is the welfare checks and shortly after that food stamps combined with the TANF checks so that people didnt have to go to two departments to apply for each thing. When you applied for TANF, you got your check, your food stamps and medicaid all together. Soon after that, I was placed in a unit that worked with clients that had gone to work but were still eligible for up to 9 months of TANF checks if they reported their jobs within a timely manner. They would also get child care started immediately. It was to promote working instead of sitting on the dole. Within two years of being employed I got hired into the Fraud Department when they got a grant from the government to increase the size of the department in order to crack down on fraud in Social Services. I loved it. Sometimes we worked with the Department of Agriculture who actually is the one who investigates food stamps on a county and state level. This is working on cracking down with stores who buy food stamps or sell things that shouldnt be bought with food stamps. We would go in undercover and attempt to buy things with food stamps that shouldnt be bought or watch people sell their food stamps at little stores. You would be amazed at these little stores that had almost zero inventory but took in thousands and thousands of dollars of food stamps each month but the inventory every month of food stuff never changed. We would go in every month and the cans of food was dusty and out of date...lol. They were selling gas and beer and tee shirts with food stamps. We loved busting them. We had a program when we went to EBT cards that would show us what people bought and we could see how people bought a whole cart of food at one register and then not ten minutes later bought another whole cart of food at another register. We would go to that store and pull the videos and often see another person using the same card. Or see another person handing the cardholder money in the store! Perfectly understandable to forget a loaf of bread or an item or two and half to run back in for something but not two entire carts in 5 or 10 minutes. That means someone else is also shopping and the cardholder just goes back and grabs the cart and hits another line to go through. Oh the stories I could tell! And for anyone to think I would give up that job that I adored just to sit here at home, in pain, making about 1/4th of what I made there is out of their ever loving mind. [/QUOTE]
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