Laura says:

i know families that receive food stamps that are more than what an average family would pay. For example, my family consists of two adults and two young children. We spend $150 a month on groceries and are comfortable. A single woman with children the same ages as mine receives $400 in food stamps!
A co worker of mine who has 4 teenagers in her home plus her husband spends $400 a month. A family I know with 4 latency age children and a couple receive $700 a month in food stamps.
Is something not wrong with this? Maybe when someone gets food stamps they need to be educated on how to use coupons and other smart ways of shopping. Let's educate and then hopefully the amount of food stamps being given can be decreased!

Terry & Linda L say:

We consider it a shame that many people are unemployed and yet many retired government employees hold down government jobs. Government employees (once referred to as civil servants), now receive better pay with better benefits than the private sector and we now wonder who the servants really are. Anyway, we believe it time for Utah to pass a law forbidding any government agency from state to local governments to hire a retired government employee unless the employee is willing to give up the corresponding retirement pay. The U.S. government does that and it is now time to give more people an opportunity for a state or local government job. This should also apply to teachers, since there are approximately 7500 teachers with expired teacher certificates and many of those would like a teaching job and opportunity to get re-cert! ified. We are tired of the old excuse that they are saving the government money because they don’t have to be trained but we suspect that it is really nepotism or cronyism at work; or could it be that these people are going to live forever.

Matt S. says:

The State of Utah get's ripped off when it comes to hiring companies to construct highways. How often do you see 10 guys standing around highway construction with a mouth-full of chaw, staring at one guy doing some work? Unbelievable! There needs to be an independent auditing firm awarded a contract to watch these people and make sure we aren't wasting millions of taxpayers dollars on all of these unecessary workers who are probably just family members of the contractor that was awarded the job!!!

Terra S says:

E-Rep (their new computer system)does not work, and never will work the way it was intended. Their response to every over-payment, ineligible case, error they get is "We expect E-rep will solve that problem." You need to talk to the people who know the facts, not to the people who are paid to sell DWS and their 'cutting edge' ideas.

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