How Irs Form 13844 Poverty 2025

There's no question about it, welfare - who needs it, who gets it - is changing across the world. Earlier, we heard about how the so-called bedroom tax is affecting the disabled here in the UK. Across the Atlantic, one in six Americans are now using food stamps, federal payments each month, to help cover the bills at the supermarket. The numbers dependent on the scheme spiked during the financial crisis but have stayed high, despite recent signs that the US economy is growing again. Our economics editor, Faisal Islam, traveled to the traditionally wealthy Rhode Island on the east coast of America, where he found the use of food stamps is moving up the income scale to reach those who have always thought of themselves as the traditional American middle class. For one sixth of Americans, the economic recovery is far from golden. Food stamps, branded as EBT or electronic benefit transfer, is the calling card of America's working poor and its living standards crisis. Here in Rhode Island, between New York and Boston, this electronic card meant to control welfare spending on food is gold in color. In this state, some towns are so dependent on this federal money that the economy runs on the timetable of the gold card - the first of every month, known as gold card day, a backdoor local stimulus. The cards are topped up with hundreds of dollars of cash from Washington, and the trolleys and car parks of the supermarkets fill up as well. Even at a nearby farmers market, about a third of the customers come with their gold cards. You get this, you get the gold card, and that's what everyone calls it or a lot of people call that. And at the first of the month, they automatically give you...