Times review finds that in more than half of the state's casinos and gaming rooms, welfare recipients can get cash from state-issued EBT cards. Officials say they're moving to block such transactions.
Reporting from Sacramento — California welfare recipients are able to use state-issued debit cards to withdraw cash on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the state, a Los Angeles Times review of records found.
The cards, provided by the Department of Social Services to help recipients feed and clothe their families, work in automated teller machines at 32 of 58 tribal casinos and 47 of 90 state-licensed poker rooms, the review found.
State officials said Wednesday they were working to determine how much money had been withdrawn from casino ATMs by people using the welfare debit cards.
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NOTE- We're pretty sure that democrats Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi have NO problem with people on welfare using your tax dollars to gamble. It's why California is so broke. They keep electing democrats to the legislature..
Is anyone shocked by this? Anyone?
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