Are we are creating a major dependency class?

[bsmooth]

Why would case workers explain to someone how to fraudulently transfer a vehicle in order to exploit the system ?

In many states you can gift a vehicle to a family member. It is not fraud, it is perfectly legal.

[Spider-Dan]

Why would a financed car count against you for food stamps ? It is a debt not an asset.

Does a mortgaged home count as an asset before you have completely paid it off?  Until that point, it is also a debt.

Why would case workers explain to someone how to fraudulently transfer a vehicle in order to exploit the system ?

Is it "fraud" to donate money to charity to put yourself into a lower tax bracket?  How about to buy an electric car just to receive the tax rebate?

The law ostensibly prevents people with substantial assets from enrolling in that particular program.  If you've sold your asset, you no longer have it.  If you can then qualify for the program (after having sold the asset in question), that is the system working as intended.

To give another example:  if some case worker said you didn't qualify for assistance because you owned your home, and you then sold your home and were still poor, how is that even "gaming the system"?  You're pulling out every stop to try to make ends meet, and you still need help.

Furthermore, you say yourself that the financed car is a debt, so if she can get someone else to take that debt off her hands (even for $1), how is that fraud?

[el diablo]

You lived on $2 a day. Your firends or family must really like you.

Just to clarify. It cost $10 to camp out for those 5 days. It cost $20 per visit to the paddock area. And we brought our own food. In the end, it was still cheaper to  spend that week at Daytona, than to go to one football game.

[Phishfan]

What race was that Diablo? I thought you still had to purchase race tickets.

[el diablo]

The July race at Daytona in 2003.  The access to the paddock area was your ticket. Stood behind the fence line of pit row.