It is the nature of federal programs that hand out other people’s money to perpetually expand. Consequently, food stamps are not only for the poor anymore. The New York Post reports that even the well-to-do can ride the EBT gravy train thanks to Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility:

The Clinton administration manufactured this loophole, and the Obama administration supercharged it.

Currently, 43 states and Washington, DC, use BBCE to bypass federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility limits on income, assets or both.

Here’s how it works:

State welfare agencies print up a brochure about welfare programs, or set up an informational hotline, and deem it a “benefit” under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

Anyone who touches that pamphlet or receives the phone number is then treated as being “categorically eligible” for food stamps — even millionaires.

Welfare fraud isn’t an accident. It is by design. The more of our money Democrats confiscate and cast to the four winds, the more power they achieve by enlisting an ever-larger army of freeloaders.

Many of these freeloaders live better than most of us. The Foundation for Government Accountability discovered that 14,000 EBT recipients bought new luxury vehicles — Maseratis, Ferraris, etc. — in a single state.

So as to facilitate fraud, SNAP does not require any serious confirmation of identity; a library card will suffice. As a result, many recipients claim benefits from other states. As determined by IP addresses, they often do it from other countries.

A foreign fraudster with a disposable email can sign up for welfare faster than you can get through to the IRS helpline.

No doubt it still counts as social justice so long as regular Americans get screwed.

On a tip from abcanc.