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Cantonment Woman Charged With Public Assistance Fraud
October 12, 2023
A Cantonment woman has been charged with felony public assistance fraud.
Tammy Anne Wooton, 49, was charged with failure to disclose a change in circumstances or failure to disclose a material fact to the Department of Children and Families.
Wooton failed to report change in employment, reported an extra household resident and failed to report a household member’s employment, according to court documents.
Prosecutors said she received benefits totalling $17,214.22 to which she was not entitled.
She was released from jail on a $5,000 bond.
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17 Responses to “Cantonment Woman Charged With Public Assistance Fraud”
I agree that this is a crime and should be punishment for
All that do so.
This is penny crimes compared to the crimes of the rich (like the orange man).
We can do both, take care our needs and help defend other countries because after all, to help them is really to help us in the long run! Look at the big picture.
I have reported someone repeatedly for way more FRAUD, they pick and choose ENTIRE SYSTEM IS A JOKE!
I know this won’t come a shock to anyone but she one of probably millions who have/are committing the same crime. The entire system needs to be overhauled.
You all are compassionate to her. She wasn’t unlucky. She stole. She’s a thief. She did wrong and now she has to pay the price.
I also agree with the comments about helping OUR people first before helping others. Billions of dollars go out to fight/kill but people here in the USA are suffering. Hungry. Homeless.
@Kane
I didn’t take his DL away. I haven’t done anything. And he works….always has. Just likes to circumvent the system.
I find this unbelievable, my husband works, I don’t, we are raising grand childREN, meaning more than one because of death and can’t get any help and she gets over $17k more than what she was suppose to get, Only in America.
It probably took several years to accrue that much, they certainly don’t give much to eat on.
They should start checking other recipients. I’m sure they will find plenty of other people that do this. She was unlucky and got caught!
I hope they crack down on everyone stealing. If they cut their hand off on first offense it would stop a lot of it. To many people get hand outs while I work my tail off and pay taxes to pay for this crap
@Waiting on child support yeah, I’ve been there waiting on that check too but taking away his DL how is that going to you get Child support checks any quicker? That seems a bit of an oxymoron “I want money, but you can’t drive to work”. I get putting him in jail he is not paying so he aint playing but not being able to drive just seems like you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
Yeah, I’ll start worrying about families getting extra financial aid when we stop bailing out corporations that send American jobs overseas and give nothing NOTHING back to this country for it. Also, we can stop sending money and very expensive equipment to Ukraine and maybe use that money to do something about the rampant drug addiction and HOMELESS people we can’t seem to help.
Wow, a lot of people still keep getting benefits even while working because it’s so expensive to live now that this is going to really hurt a lot of people if they really start cracking down on this. Sad world we live in.
On her Facebook page, she literally complains about people getting free stuff from the government, and she’s being charged with fraud, for illegally getting free stuff from the government
used ebt card to post bond…
How about going after someone owing over $60,000 in back child support? Still waiting over here. They took his license and he’s still driving….and for a company at that! They arrested him and then let him go and guess what, he still isn’t paying. Why would he, there’s literally no consequence to not helping care for his children.
Wonder why she is being singled out and charged. A lot of households on public assistance have additional people living with them – mostly men who manage to fly under the radar regarding child support, etc. Hello out there, wake up ….our system is not working like it was designed to do
17,000 dollars? This is punching down.