More than 66,000 people stayed on food stamp rolls even after winning enough money in lotteries to make them ineligible—and that’s based on data obtained in just 13 U.S. states—with the figure for all 50 states “likely in the hundreds of thousands,” a government watchdog has revealed.
The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) submitted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to all 50 states, seeking information on the number of people in the food stamp program since 2019 who won big in the lottery, according to Hayden Dublois, the FGA’s data and analytics director.
