83% of all food stamp benefits go to households with children, the elderly, or the disabled. The fraud rate of the SNAP program is just 1%. And there are strict limits on how long the unemployed can receive benefits.
Fox's airing of some California surfer is obviously a disingenuous attempt to portray all food stamp recipients as lazy bums, especially when the phrase "the new face of food stamps" is used. There's absolutely nothing representative about that guy.
In what is a curiosity, there have been large swarms of, err, 'disabled' declaring back pain or some other malady in order to siphon free cash from the public dole.
Thankfully, this is self-correcting. Sometime before Barry leaves office, Social Security disability will go belly up and kick in automatic spending cuts.