Somehow, this is not as shocking as it should be:
Michigan officials and legislators are moving quickly to change the rules that made it possible for the winner of a $2 million lottery to keep receiving food stamps, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Department of Human Services officials confirmed that they had told Leroy Fick, 59, that he could continue to receive aid because he took his Make Me Rich earnings in a lump sum and still met the income threshold for food assistance.
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"It's just awful," Democratic lawmaker Charles Brunner says, the Free Press reports. "It's not just a glitch; it's a gaping loophole. It's something we've got to fix."
No, "loophole" isn't any more accurate than "glitch." It's the mindset springing from the modern dependency culture. Fick says good luck on trying to make him feel bad about still taking food stamps. "It ain't going to happen" because the government took more than half his winnings in taxes.
