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Four Hours at the Welfare Office

I went with my neighbor to renew her SNAP benefits. We arrived at 8 a.m. and were called at 1 p.m. The staff was polite, but the process was mechanical. One missing document—start over. She stood there holding her child and whispered, “Do they think I’m lying?” The system calls it fraud prevention. The people being tested are always the weakest. #SNAPProcess #WelfareSystem #Bureaucracy #EverydayPolitics