Las Vegas Sun NewsSome Las Vegas charities giving away toys and turkeys this season have started asking families to show state identification cards to get a slice of holiday cheer. The charities say the controversial move to require Social Security or state identification cards, or birth certificates, was needed to prevent fraud born of desperation in a state at the center of the country's financial crisis.
Las Vegas charities ask the needy for IDs before giveaways
(via Reuters) · November 29, 2011 · 1:48 PM
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Why won't our government agencies do this before handing out medical or other social services?
Our state does for Food Stamps and Medicaid. For Food Stamps, verification of identity and citizenship is required by the Feds. Also, the head of household's and other required member's social security numbers must verify with the social security interface link between the state system and social security.
Additionally, for Medicaid, ORIGINAL verification of both identity and citizenship are required. This means ORIGINAL birth certificates, naturalization papers, hospital birth record, etc must be provided, copied and viewed by a staff member. Many people fail this requirement because some people do not have their or their children's original documents.
"Why won't our government agencies do this before handing out medical or other social services?"
boftx -- too bad the article is so terse. Near where I live there's more homeless people than seen in the suburbs.
"Many people fail this requirement because some people do not have their or their children's original documents."
kmnvegas -- thanx for filling in some blanks.
Having ID is the least of worries for our unfortunate homeless. This need for documentation should be one of our foremost concerns on several fronts. One being the encroachment of the police state on all fronts -- you have no rights unless you carry your papers with you, which translates to government permission to just exist. This is so far from our Founders' intent as to become what the Declaration of Independence was written against!
If the charities are requiring this on their own, it's their privilege. If the state is requiring it that's quite another thing. There should not be any barriers whatsoever between people not getting enough to eat and those who wish to give it to them.
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from your government. I'm here to help.'" -- the late President Ronald Reagan