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Eligibility workers don't have to verify income if an applicant meets "expedited" criteria. If they meet that criteria, the only thing we have to verify is identification, and that can be done in many different ways.
Expedited means that someone has less than $150 anticipated, or anticipates not bringing in enough to pay rent/utilities for the month and doesn't already have an open foodstamp case in the state in which they are applying.
Typically, workers are pretty good at getting income verification though. They do get jipped sometimes by people who come in from other states and claim they have no income; but we have 7 days even for expedited before we have to make a determination, and usually w/in 7 days we can figure out if the client has benefits in another state, and locate some sort of verification of income.
People who are really dedicated to hiding income can easily do it. Workers don't look at bank statements for foodstamps, and if a person is earning $1000 cash paid under the table, and doesn't claim that, there's no way for them to catch that right away. Women tend to hide income more than men do...men tend to claim they work a lot more than they do, and try to hide the fact that they just don't work. For example, a guy who is living in a trailer on his folks' place and who has been for decades, will try to make it seem as though he's "working" for his parents in order to pay his keep. But really, they're just providing him with a place to stay and paying his bills.
I think most people pretending to be poor hide their assets in the Cayman Islands.
I love it when you prove how truly stupid you are.
They used that fib on Romney....and you bought it.
The Cayman Islands used to be known as a tax haven, a place where people could set up an account with a friendly banker whose lips were sealed. However, tax experts, say in 2009 the Caymans agreed to exchange tax information with at least a dozen IRS-type organizations around the world. Suddenly, it became more difficult to hide assets or income and some banks actually shut down their operations on its sunny shores. Why does Mitt Romney have money in the Caymans? Two potential reasons. - CSMonitor.com
In 2010, the IRS and the Treasury Department passed legislation called theForeign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and those regulations will force many foreign banks to divulge the identities and account information of U.S. customers with sizeable offshore accounts that until now may have remained hidden for decades. Some parts of the legislation won't take effect for a few years, but this year, many American expatriates must divulge personal information about their overseas accounts to the IRS. FATCA: How the IRS Plans to Track Down Secret Offshore Accounts | InvestingAnswers