Rich Seattle couple receive more than $1,200 in welfare money

[JennyPhone]

Well once there is something known as greed it seems you would always find things like this happening.

 

[Macamus Prime]

The conservative scum bag fingermen seem to forget examples like this when they scream bloody murder about welfare.

They always bring up people on welfare who have tattoos, iPhones and new clothing - you know, the people they happen to see on the street or something when they drive through a "bad" part of town.

 

[Bowfinger]

This was one of the featured stories on Today this morning. He is a chiropractor. To get assistance she claimed she lived alone at the house with their two kids and listed him as the landlord. He listed his office as his home address to avoid detection. They were finally caught through some sort of automated cross-checking system.

Feds: Couple Claimed Welfare, Lived in $1.2M Home

SEATTLE -- A Seattle chiropractor and his wife live in a $1.2 million waterfront home and have spent the past eight years flying to Moscow, Paris, Israel, Turkey, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

All the while, federal authorities say, the couple was collecting more than $100,000 in welfare.

Now, the U.S. attorney's office is suing David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova, accusing them of filing false claims and demanding that the couple pay back more than $135,000 in federal housing assistance since 2003. Prosecutors are also seeking tens of thousands of dollars in fines.

In gaining Section 8 housing assistance, Shimonova represented that she lived alone with her two children and that her household assets were less than $5,000. Silverstein received the monthly benefits of $1,272 as Shimonova's purported landlord, the government said. ...

 

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This was one of the featured stories on Today this morning. He is a chiropractor. To get assistance she claimed she lived alone at the house with their two kids and listed him as the landlord. He listed his office as his home address to avoid detection. They were finally caught through some sort of automated cross-checking system.

Interesting. I wonder if this is what brought up a similar story on CNN. It seems that for many government handouts current assests ARE NOT taken into account, only current wage. The story was about a Michigan man who was still receiving food stamps even though he won over $2 million on a game show recently. It was completely legal as he had no job even though he was living in a very nice house and still had most of his winnings. $0 wage income = food stamp assistance. I wondered if he was on unemployment as well

 

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This was one of the featured stories on Today this morning. He is a chiropractor. To get assistance she claimed she lived alone at the house with their two kids and listed him as the landlord. He listed his office as his home address to avoid detection. They were finally caught through some sort of automated cross-checking system.

Side note: I wonder what would have happened if they had chosen to officially divorce but still really stay together and he rented a cheap-o appartment somewhere

 

[Genx87]

Here you go attacking wonderful programs that bring people out of poverty. You republicans are all alike. 😛

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