{"id":327041,"date":"2015-02-26T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=327041"},"modified":"2015-02-27T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T21:00:02","slug":"schaefer-files-measure-targeting-food-stamp-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=327041","title":{"rendered":"Schaefer Files Measure Targeting Food Stamp Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/thumb_matt-schaeffer-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/thumb_matt-schaeffer-11.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_matt-schaeffer-1\" width=\"92\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-327042\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; State Representative Matt Schaefer of Tyler has filed a bill requiring photo identification and the recipient&#8217;s name on food stamp cards.  The District 6 Republican says the cards would also include the fraud hotline number and a statement saying, &#8220;Paid for by the American taxpayer.&#8221;   Claiming there&#8217;s a lot of fraud in Texas, Schaefer says right now the cards don&#8217;t even have the person&#8217;s name on them and that they&#8217;re being sold and used for currency.  According to Schaefer, &#8220;If the state of Massachusetts can put photo ID and the names on the food stamp cards, we can do it in Texas.  We need integrity in our food stamp program.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; State Representative Matt Schaefer of Tyler has filed a bill requiring photo identification and the recipient&#8217;s name on food stamp cards. The District 6 Republican says the cards would also include the fraud hotline number and a statement saying, &#8220;Paid for by the American taxpayer.&#8221; Claiming there&#8217;s a lot of fraud in Texas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=327041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schaefer Files Measure Targeting Food Stamp Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 16:14:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327043,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327041\/revisions\/327043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}