Paying the Bills
According to the notice she received, a woman named only as –Annie†received more food stamps than she was entitled to, and thus owes the Illinois Department of Human Services $741. If she doesn’t pay, the state will submit her debt to the U.S. Department of the Treasury so the money can be deducted from any federal payments she receives, such as Social Security. Annie received the food stamps when she was single and raising a teenage daughter — in the mid-1980s. While she acknowledges receiving the food stamps for that period in her life, she doesn’t agree that she was overpaid. –I don’t remember them giving me no over-issuance,†says Annie, who is now 70 years old. –All I got was what they said I would get.†According to Meghan Powers, an Illinois Department of Human Services spokeswoman, there is no time limit on when such debts can be collected, and the department doesn’t have the legal discretion to forgive old debts. (MS/Chicago Sun-Times) ...Can she take as long to repay them as they did to bill her?Original Publication Date: 19 November 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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