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May 12, 2013
One-Third Population Of Puerto Rico Gets Food Stamps From U.S. Government, Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion In 2012
The federal government spent more than $2 billion to provide food stamps to Puerto Rico in 2012, up to 25 percent of which is untraceable because it is distributed in cash and there is “no way to verify that funds are spent on food,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The funds are used to supply more than one-third of the population of Puerto Rico with food stamps.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) for Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, received $2 billion in Nutrition Assistance Block Grants in fiscal year 2012.
Part of that total includes funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), popularly known as the “economic stimulus,” which passed in 2009 — $165 million in economic stimulus funds went to food stamps in Puerto Rico in FY 2012.
The $165 million in stimulus funding is on top of $494.3 million in food stamp grants to Puerto Rico from the ARRA in FY 2009 and 2010. Stimulus spending will continue towards the program this year, with an estimated $101.3 million in FY 2013.
Wild Thing's comment.................
Our government spends so much money all over the place and every bit of course is from our pocket. augh!!!!
Posted by Wild Thing at May 12, 2013 01:50 AM
Comments
Unfreaking believable.
Why is it our senior citizens who paid into this system all their lives get only a few dollars a month if they qualify but those who have never paid into the system get hundreds a month? This is just stinking wrong and what's wrong with our government and the system. Those who contribute are punished and those who don't are rewarded.
Posted by: BobF at May 12, 2013 09:39 AM
