February 9, 2015   Subscribe Have you received SNAP benefits or do you know a lot about them? I have some questions.Cindy Nerger of Warner Robins, Ga., said she and her husband aren't proud when they use their food stamp debit card to buy groceries. "I felt shy when I used them and my husband does, too," Nerger, 28, told The Huffington Post. "I would try to hide the card." But Nerger said she never expected to be deliberately humiliated. That's what she said happened last week after she argued with a manager over her bill at a Kroger grocery store. The cashier told her she owed $10, which Nerger said could not be possible because she knew food stamps covered the items in her cart. A manager eventually let her go, but not before giving Nerger a piece of his mind. "He finally just said, 'Okay, just give it to her.' I said, 'See, I told you it was covered by food stamps,' and he said, 'Excuse me for working for a living and not relying on food stamps!'" By that time, Nerger said, several people had been waiting in line behind her, and other customers had started watching the exchange.

It was too much. "I turned around and saw everyone beyond me and I just burst into tears," she said. Local TV station WMAZ first reported the incident after Nerger posted a note on the station's Facebook page. A Kroger spokesman subsequently apologized to Nerger and told WMAZ that the manager has been transferred to another store. yo sushi menu in vallejoKroger also offered Nerger a $15 gift card, which she declined.jiro dreams of sushi yen Nerger said she started receiving food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, when she became eligible for Medicare and Social Security Supplemental Income because of kidney failure in 2008. ichiban sushi menu chattanooga

While she waits for a kidney transplant, she cannot work because of daily 12-hour dialysis treatments. Her husband runs a carpentry business. "If he doesn't get a call [for a job] we don't have any extra money for the month," she said. Food stamps have been a hot issue in the presidential campaign, with Republicans labeling President Barack Obama the "Food Stamp President" and charging that Obama has deliberately increased dependency on government. sushi miami beach purdyThe Great Recession and its aftermath have pushed SNAP enrollment to 46.6 million, up from 34 million at the same time in 2009.jiro dreams of sushi guardian Nerger said she is sure there are some people on food stamps who are "just lazy," but she resents supermarket judgment no matter what. sushi delivery london e14

"I've seen some comments from people talking about how they hate standing in line with somebody who's got food stamps because they’ve got two carts full of food," Nerger said. "Did you not realize maybe this person is not able to get to the grocery store but once a month?" However much the campaign issues might resonate in her personal life, Nerger said she doesn't have cable and hasn't been following politics or the presidential election. Still, she doesn't think much of either Obama or his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. "They’re all gonna kill us," she said. "Most of the people that we have to choose from -- Obama with his spending and his health care reform, and then Mitt Romney, he just wants to let poor people die, so either way we're doomed. So I don’t see any point in voting." Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Unemployment Cindy Nerger Food Stamps Cindy Nerger Food StampsUpdate added by user Nov 01, 2014 It's sad that I am actually glad that other people are seeing this type of misuse of public funds.

Something needs to be done, apparently this is a wide spread problem if it is happening in the Orlando area as well, how much of our tax dollars are being wasted this way by companies like Winn-Dixie???? My next door neighbor told me a few minutes ago that he use to see the same type of fraudulent practices when he shopped at Albertson's and Wal-Mart in the past, the people doing this act like it's some kind of joke and the stores like Winn-Dixie are either laughing all the way to the bank or just plain clueless, either case is unacceptable and I plan on contacting the Department of Children and Families Fraud Hotline on Monday and report Winn-Dixie at least, being I did not get any of the illegal customers information.They have a reward for reporting food stamp fraud, maybe with the reward money I can get my kid some cooked crab legs, and maybe even some shrimp and lobster!!!! Original review posted by user Nov 01, 2014 This has happened countless time at both of the Bradenton Winn-Dixie stores I shop at.

I get behind these customers that are using food stamp cards to purchase hot-cooked-steamed snow crab legs. I work two jobs and my wife works also and we don't spend that kind of money on what I consider a luxury food item. I asked the cashier why they were aloud to do that and told her that food stamps are not to be used for hot prepared foods, her only response was they do it all the time and so does she. She told me that the seafood or meat employees are suppose to re-weigh the items one they are cooked so they can not be purchased with the food stamp cards but never do. This has me so mad, to think that my hard earned tax dollars from the three jobs that are being worked from my home are being spent on such items, I never agreed to buy these people a hot seafood dinner, especially when I can't afford one for myself or my family. This is pure and simple FRAUD, and the Winn-Dixie employees are well aware of it and promoting it, where is the state to monitor this type of fraud? I don't think I would be so upset if it weren't for the fact that I have been seeing this for years and my child recently asked if we could by some crab legs while in line behind these people wasting my tax money;

I unfortunately had to tell my son that I could not afford to buy any crab legs and then was laughed at by both the cashier and the customers in front of me using the food stamp cards to buy the cooked grab legs. To make matters worse, these same customers pulled out what looked like a huge wad of cash to purchase cigarettes, cigars, beer and wine on a separate order witch me wait even longer while my son was complaining about me not being able to buy him some crab legs. Winn-Dixie should be sued, they are guilty of purposely participating tax/food stamp fraud by allowing "customers" to do this and the employees apparently doing it themselves, I need to call the state fraud hotline or something to put a stop to this. Florida Department of Children and Families should fine Winn-Dixie until they stop willfully participating in this fraud, the money from the fines should be used to support enforcing additional fraud cases. Food stamp cards should not be aloud to be used Had the same issue

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