{"id":2641081,"date":"2026-08-05T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpaperwork-is-driving-people-away-from-food-stamps-good\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:08:06","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpaperwork-is-driving-people-away-from-food-stamps-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpaperwork-is-driving-people-away-from-food-stamps-good\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Paperwork&#8217; Is Driving People Away From Food Stamps. Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpaperwork-is-driving-people-away-from-food-stamps-good%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2641081&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/universal-basic-income-payments-how-experiments-sending-people-money-have-worked-out\/\" title=\"Results of universal basic ... experiments\">current welfare system<\/a>, especially focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-ag-brnovich-calls-on-gov-ducey-to-take-three-actions-to-address-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Arizona AG Brnovich Calls On Gov. Ducey To Take Three Actions To Address Border Crisis\">food assistance programs<\/a> like SNAP. It highlights how recent policies have made it increasingly difficult for recipients to obtain benefits, citing examples such as requiring written household declarations and documentation of income, which manny find burdensome and discouraging. The piece argues that these hurdles are driven by a desire to reduce welfare enrollment, but ultimately hinder vulnerable populations from accessing necessary aid. It also alleges that the program&#8217;s generous payouts contribute to inflation and economic issues, estimating over $100 billion spent annually on food stamps. Additionally, the article mentions claims by the Trump management of notable welfare fraud, but emphasizes that the core issue lies in the welfare system&#8217;s design and its entitlement mentality, which the author views as problematic and counterproductive. eddie Scarry, a columnist for the Federalist, is noted as the author.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Just as this administration cannot afford to let up on mass deportations, it can\u2019t do enough to choke every bit of oxygen out of this country\u2019s obscene welfare problem \u2014\u00a0starting with food stamps.<\/p>\n<p>For proof, look no further than a New York Times<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/20\/us\/politics\/snap-food-stamps-arizona.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/20\/us\/politics\/snap-food-stamps-arizona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> article<\/a> from late July, which was the basis of an episode for the paper\u2019s <em>The Daily<\/em> podcast this week. The article was headlined \u2014\u00a0if you can even believe it \u2014 \u201cFaced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps.\u201d Imagine supposedly relying on food stamps to feed yourself or your family but choosing to starve because of \u201cpiles of new paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course, nobody is starving. At worst, they\u2019re drinking water instead of bottles of soda. (\u201cSweetened beverages\u201d are the <a href=\"https:\/\/fna-bwbufwdzbabpezgc.z01.azurefd.us\/sites\/default\/files\/ops\/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fna-bwbufwdzbabpezgc.z01.azurefd.us\/sites\/default\/files\/ops\/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second-most<\/a> purchased category of items using food stamps, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.) The entire program is a racket, and the degree of entitlement oozes through the Times like an infected pimple way past its due date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can take months to reach besieged caseworkers, and offices have gone as far as asking people with panhandling income for verification from strangers dropping cash in their jar,\u201d the Times reported, using the steep drop in Arizona\u2019s \u201cSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\u201d (SNAP) enrollment as a case study. \u201cArizonans losing SNAP say they are skipping meals, quarreling over food, and missing rent payments to restock pantry shelves. For the first time, monthly\u00a0visits to the state\u2019s food banks \u2014 private charities \u2014 have exceeded enrollment in SNAP,\u00a0the government\u2019s main nutrition safety net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If reading that didn\u2019t fill you with a molten rage, you\u2019re either too rich to care or you\u2019re stupid. The fact that it\u2019s treated as a tragedy or even a controversy that anyone might be inconvenienced the slightest to get free groceries tells you how desperately wrong things are going. Try reaching a human when there\u2019s a problem with your AT&#038;T service and then complain to me about how long it took to get food stamps.<\/p>\n<p>This is from an actual segment of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/05\/podcasts\/the-daily\/arizona-food-stamp-snap.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/05\/podcasts\/the-daily\/arizona-food-stamp-snap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">episode<\/a> of <em>The Daily<\/em> regarding new <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >food stamp \u201cpaperwork requirements\u201d imposed<\/a> by President Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d passed last year: \u201cIt used to be that applicants could just walk in the office and tell a caseworker how many people lived in [their] household and who they were. Now applicants had to go to neighbors or friends and get a written declaration of who lived in the household. And if the neighbor or friend failed to sign the letter or failed to put their phone number on the letter, you\u2019d have to start all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God forbid a person supposedly on the verge of starvation get a \u2014\u00a0are you ready for it? \u2014\u00a0 \u201cwritten declaration\u201d attesting to the validity of their household size, lest they have to \u201cstart all over again.\u201d It must be hell on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more from <em>The Daily<\/em> episode: \u201cIt used to be if you had panhandling income, you gave the [welfare] office your best guess of how much you made. Now they asked applicants with panhandling income to go back and get written documentation of the money people had dropped in the jars. \u2026 And in the end, if they can\u2019t get the written documentation, [the government will] take their word for it. But [government officials] have to make them go out and try. And of course if you make people go out and try, a lot of them just don\u2019t come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  In short, people who are asked to account for their income, even if it\u2019s through begging, are declining to do even that, thus foregoing free groceries, paid for by other Americans. This, according to the Times, is an outrage.<\/p>\n<p>What everyone should take away from this is that far too many people are getting free groceries. And the sense of entitlement is so extreme that these people don\u2019t even want to file paperwork for their free meals. Don\u2019t tell me this isn\u2019t a primary driver of our current inflation problems. It is. Free money and limited supply are what drive up prices, and food stamps account for more than <a href=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/answers\/how-much-does-the-federal-government-spend-on-snap-every-year\/country\/united-states\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/answers\/how-much-does-the-federal-government-spend-on-snap-every-year\/country\/united-states\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$100 billion<\/a> in free money \u2014\u00a0every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration said this week it has identified <a href=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/nation-world\/jd-vance-asks-congress-for-help-in-federal-fraud-fight-touts-230-billion-identified-medicare-medicaid-health-american-taxpayer-data-sharing-penalties-waste-abuse-stephen-miller-andrew-ferguson-task-force-vice-president\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/nation-world\/jd-vance-asks-congress-for-help-in-federal-fraud-fight-touts-230-billion-identified-medicare-medicaid-health-american-taxpayer-data-sharing-penalties-waste-abuse-stephen-miller-andrew-ferguson-task-force-vice-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$230 billion<\/a> in welfare fraud. That\u2019s all fine and good, but the real problem, unquestionably, isn\u2019t fraud. It\u2019s the welfare itself.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admin must curb welfare abuse, starting with food stamps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2641082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Food-Stamps.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[34205,83732,4326],"class_list":["post-2641081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-food-stamps","tag-paperwork-burden","tag-policy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Food-Stamps.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641085,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641081\/revisions\/2641085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}