According to the NY Times, the state of New York will no longer fingerprint recipients of food stamps because of ".........because of the stigma associated with being fingerprinted." It is also reported that the fingerprinting reduces fraud amounting to 3.5 million per year !!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/ny...ps-in-nyc.html

Got me to looking around a bit and it seems that food stamp fraud is a big item. 46 million folks use food stamps and according to reports it is ripe for fraud and the US Govt knows it.

In the house this past month the Republicans were holding hearings on this matter, but it was being dismissed by the Democrats.