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Originally Posted by dyna mo
while an issue, i don't see it as a big one-
California welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million at casino ATMs over eight months
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issues an executive order requiring recipients to promise they will use cash benefits only to meet basic subsistence needs. GOP legislators call for the cash to be returned.
Casino withdrawals, which represented far less than 1% of total welfare spending during the eight months for which the department released data, averaged just over $227,392 a month.
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That is over an eight month period but I believe a study was done that goes back further than 8 months and it was like four or five million which is still a drop in the bucket...but does still hurt the children whose parents are involved in gambling...and it needs to be fixed where they cannot use their debit cards at a Casino.