Welfare Fraud and Accountability

This is basically what court tells us fathers

How life works is this... sometimes you never hear of certain things until it happens to you. Prior to Philadelphia's Family Court system teaching me that I'm to be punished for other's wrong doing, I had never heard of it. I may have heard it in passing perhaps or whatever but it's just something I never paid attention to. I know our tax dollars go toward it and in a lot of cases it's put to good use.... just not in Philadelphia. Philadelphia harbors some of the worst that are guilty of this simple to do tactic that, let's be honest, is committed solely by mothers. Who else would do it? Fathers? Ha! Not happening considering judges here chop our dicks off at the door when it comes to us men.

And you know... I'll be the first father to admit that it's true, there are a lot of shit fathers. But it's not our fault that a group of men at some point in time fucked it up for every other father thereafter. And judges, especially female judges, don't even bother to check facts. Why would they? Their minds are made up before even meeting us. In 2011, when I first found out about this neat little side activity mothers can pull whenever they want, I received a regular support petition in the mail. Upon contacting her, she claimed she didn't file and that I shouldn't worry about it. Of course. When the time came I remember getting there and to my surprise she wasn't there. The clerk lubing up her pen told me she didn't have to be. I wasn't surprised. What did surprise me was that she explained to me what this really was: It was the Philadelphia Department of Welfare filing on behalf of her... against me. Side note... this was before I was paying support through court. Dumb move. I know. Though I kept my receipts because I (and everyone I know) expected the proof would be in receipts.

Considering court lets women use it for their own personal use...
 I'd choose the acid lake too!

This is how welfare fraud works... The mother takes child support, doesn't report it to welfare, whether it's through court or not, while simultaneously accepting cash assistance from the Department of Welfare. Along with the cash moms get food stamps and free benefits. This is the part that makes it fraud: she doesn't actually have the kids. Let me back up... I moved back home in 2003, she continued to live with her fascist mother until 2010. She moved out, without the two kids(she left them with her mother), and moved in with her boyfriend... sort of unbeknownst to me. Even if I did know for certain, court was coming anyway (stay tuned for that fiasco). When, in the summer of 2011, she filed for cash assistance she told them that I was paying support. She had already had food stamps and benefits. The fraud is taking the cash without having the kids... why? I don't know. There is no explanation but, when it comes to the actual cash given, it's an issue. So welfare immediately put a halt to the cash assistance but continued giving her the benefits and stamps. So while this was going on for about 6 months, the cash given built up to $2,000. Once it was complete they filed against me, on behalf of her. Again... I don't know.

So the Philadelphia's wonderful Department of Freeloader Welfare Abusers wanted their money. I begged the question in court. I was then brought to another room, a female DA. She didn't give two fucks either. On paper, it automatically looked like I never gave a shit about my children. They claimed that not only were my receipts as useless as a bowl of piss, they weaved a bullshit tale about tarriff laws and whatever. At the end of the day the bill was shoved down my throat. I asked; "What if I refuse to pay?" This is where you can see them salivate and really get-off on the whole issue... "Well... you can face jail time, frozen bank accounts, property seizure, more arrears, we can take you car and then ram your cock into a pencil sharpener". The best part is the fact that the court knew I wasn't even involved, knew about or actually committed the crime. I mean, there's a paper trail that doesn't lead to me, it leads to her, and I'm forced to pay it. It put me in arrears for $2,000. I was never in arrears until that happened. So a quick recap: Mothers can commit welfare fraud without consequence because the court will just force fathers to pay it. When I asked a lawyer about it I was told; "It happens so often that the city would lose money if they went after every case". Basically... there are more important things for Philadelphia court to worry about.... except when it comes the father's wallets.

But this is nothing to what was coming...