{"id":43144,"date":"2026-05-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maderatribune.com\/single-post\/letters-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:59:01","slug":"letters-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/letters-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\">Did you know one can get a loan for auto repair through this program?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\">No wonder we have fraud all over the place. Requirements are income, not citizenship. USDA is in the housing loan business also. For migrants!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\">If a home owner, are you migrant? When they open the can for benefits, they also open the bottom for fraud. As Gomer Pyle would say, \u201cSurprise, surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\">Got a phone message. Could not understand who was calling, but they said they could help me to vote. Went to the Elections Office and gave them the number. Sounds fishy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\">Think before you vote, and do not vote early.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\"><em>\u2014 Bill Hoffrage,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\"><em>Madera<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know one can get a loan for auto repair through this program? No wonder we have fraud all over the place. Requirements are income, not citizenship. USDA is in the housing loan business also. For migrants! If a home owner, are you migrant? When they open the can for benefits, they also open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[37,39],"class_list":["post-43144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-finance","tag-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43155,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43144\/revisions\/43155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}