Lottery winner uses foodstamps

[Donjeta]

Michigan woman who won $1M lottery but kept using food stamps loses benefits

Updated: Thursday, 08 Mar 2012, 6:44 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 08 Mar 2012, 6:15 AM EST

LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (Newscore) - A Michigan woman won a $1 million lottery and continued to collect $200 a month in food stamps -- until she boasted about her situation to a local TV station and officials swooped in.

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"I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn't, I thought, maybe, it was OK because I'm not working," Clayton said. "It's hard. I am struggling."

She added, "I feel that it's okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay. I have two houses."

 

[Donjeta]

Video:

http://news.yahoo.com/lottery-winner-food-stamps-thought-maybe-okay-because-161650898.html

 

[JBounds]

Read about this yesterday. Her excuse is she has two houses. How about selling them? Duh...