![]() NYC OFFICIALS WANT TO INVESTIGATE BODEGAS RINGING UP SUSPICIOUSLY HIGH SALES WITH FOOD-STAMP MONEY The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), which oversees the “cash assistance program,” even lists some of these welfare-ready ATMs on its Web site.ĭEMS BOTTLE UP WELFARE REFORM BILL THAT WOULD END ‘SINFUL SPENDING’ ![]() ![]() Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs - where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.Ī database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx. ![]() They’re on the dole - and watching the pole. ![]()
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