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OLYMPIA --State lawmakers are proposing new restrictions on where welfare recipients can spend their taxpayer funded cash. This follows a KING 5 investigation that uncovered millions of tax dollars withdrawn at local casinos. Now, lawmakers are setting their sights on other adults only businesses.
A bill sponsored by Senator Mike Carrell, R-Lakewood, would ban the use of cash cards, used to distribute welfare benefits, at strip clubs, tattoo parlors, gun shops and taverns.
As you know from your investigations last summer, these cards are being misused," said Carrell
Cash welfare benefits, distributed monthly on debit cards known as EBT cards, are supposed to be used only for the care of needy children and the disabled.
The KING 5 Investigators used ATM transaction records to track an estimated $2 million in welfare cash withdrawals at casinos in Washington over the course of one year.
KING 5 quickly found withdrawals at ATMs in other adult businesses, as well.
Welfare benefits paid out at strip clubs | NorthWest Cable News | Washington News
Hey. Even the poor deserve lap dances every now and then, right. It's under the "General Welfare" clause or something.