Amanda Clayton, Michigan lottery winner, arraigned on welfare fraud charges

Fraud is fraud. How stupid of her.

That's only going to hurt people who legitimately need assistance.

She has enough money to live very comfortably forever, and she chooses to do this?

I don't get it.

won't last 2 years on that. assuming she got about half of that amount. $300,000 per year is rich, not lump sum. basically in about 2-3 years she'll end up filing again. why go thru the paperwork. So I can understand that. Dad had to settle with John Deere (they don't like older workers or white calors (sp) agism folks. ... ) because lawyers suck and JD paid the lawyer off. was about $200,000. Kinda gone now. Because of the medical bills from when dad was in the national guard and a howitzer fell on him. they are rather heavy. so when one gets passed 60, one really feels that. Been fighting the VA for quite some time. Found someone who's been thru this BS with lawyers and he basically was able to fire the lawyers and did it himself. Interestingly the Iowa City VA has been having some $$ issue's and somehow everyone is dotting their i's and fixing complaints and a 6 plus year fight seems to be actually moving. I'd already been in a deep depression since we lost the dog, my job then grandpa all in 2008.... so managed to get on SSD and medicad which some how has also got me on medicare.

so can't exactly blame her. thats not alot of money.. especially if one has Romney making 5 times as much as the president. unless he's hiding something in his swiss bank account.

You're advocating fraud, on the basis that being honest and following the law would mean filling out some paperwork?

LOL

She looks pretty healthy to me, just a scam artist...FREE FREE FREE!

She got about $500,000 after taking the lump sum and after taxes. That's a lot of money. If one spends it wisely, it would last quite a while.

...because it keeps talking about how she's a "lottery winner," but it turns out what she won was a television game show.

This was a sort of televised game show run by the lottery, in which some form of "jackpot" entitled the winner to appear on the show. They used to do something similar in Maryland I believe, in which everyone who got a certain prize on a scratch-off ticket was eligible to appear on the show to win further prizes/money.

income within 10 days. They will make her pay back what she got anyhow so she had nothing to gain by doing this.

In Michigan's unemployment system, you have to report income, and are ineligible to receive money in any week when income exceeds the unemployment benefit.

So, if I reported
week 1 - $0
week 2 - $500,000
week 3 - $0
week 4 - $0

I would get no money for week 2. I'd get the normal unemployment benefit for weeks 1, 3, and 4. Assuming, of course, that I was actively looking for work.

I think unemployment is based on employment status and income, not on the amount of financial holdings.

have to pay anything you were not supposed to get back. There are some lump sum payments that are exempt from that rule but winning a lottery is not one of them. That is income.

Too much waste, is it?

What about corporate greed, which always gets served at the expense of EVERYONE not able to duck taxes.

Republicans started gutting our economy decades ago, and these same would-be town criers concerning the misadventures of individual criminals simply look the other way for those who are really bleeding our entire world dry.

So wildly disgusting.

On DU2, there would have been several members making similar observations.

for a free public defender!


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