You just have to love California for helping all the poor people to have fun. 


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly $69 million in welfare money meant to help California's neediest families has been spent or withdrawn in places like Hawaii, Las Vegas casinos and cruise ships from Miami.

The finding reported Monday in the Los Angeles Times is based on data compiled between January 2007 and May 2010 by the California Department of Social Services.

Data showed the biggest chunk of out-of-state money — $11.8 million — was spent at casinos or withdrawn from ATMs in Las Vegas.

The investigation showed out-of-state spending on state-issued aid cards was less than 1 percent of the $10.8 billion spent by welfare recipients during the three years.

State-issued aid cards were used at hotels, shops, restaurants, ATMs or other places in every state, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, the data showed.

A single parent with two children must earn less than $14,436 to qualify for the cards, designed to help pay the rent and buy clothes for the kids, said Lizelda Lopez, a spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services.


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welfare fraud is perpetrated in EVERY city to my knowledge where you have a welfare dept and a democratic local govt.

Do you know how many dead people collect welfare checks? How many invisible recipeints and non existant beneficiaries there are? How many people with phoney ID collect three or four checks?

very once in awhile some scam is uncovered and quickly covered up because such scams cannnot exist unless somebody in the administrative office, usually from top to bottom, are in collusion.

It doesn't suprise me a bit that cards are used in las Vegas or atlantic city.

Most of the drug dealers and crooks I knew were welafre recipients and would weekly go to AC and spend like sailors.


Billy