North Carolina’s current broad-based eligibility expansion in food stamps has been ripe for reform since 2010 when former Gov. But under the Perdue administration, North Carolina began granting “categorical eligibility” to a huge group of new people. The current process allows anyone with unlimited countable assets – whether bank accounts, cash or other liquid assets – to receive food stamps. And that’s not just a hypothetical situation – before Michigan rolled back a similar expansion, it found multi-million-dollar lottery winners still receiving food stamps. Many citizens across North Carolina work very hard, often multiple jobs, to make ends meet and it is their tax dollars that are helping those in need.

Source: Forbes May 22, 2017 19:52 UTC