14,000 food stamp recipients own luxury vehicles

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What to know
Federal investigation reveals food stamp recipients driving luxury cars.
The investigation targets fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
High-end cars include Bentleys, Ferraris, and Lamborghinis among others.
4.3 million Americans have been removed from SNAP under the Trump administration.

14,000 food stamp recipients in one undisclosed red state also own luxury vehicles. We'll probably never know just how much more of this exists in blue states because Democrats are suing the Trump administration to keep this information hidden from working voters.

Thousands of food stamp recipients have been cruising to the grocery store in Maseratis, Lamborghinis, Porsches and other extravagant cars, according to new data.

That is in just one unidentified, Republican-led state.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who hasn’t identified the state, said scrutiny of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, has uncovered thousands of people receiving benefits in a single state who are also driving Bentleys and Teslas.

The stunning car inventory was uncovered by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative think tank, using state government data provided to the USDA.

Researchers at the foundation analyzed 2023 food stamp data from an anonymous state to determine whether recipients met residency requirements and to examine other program integrity data.

They also searched recipient data for luxury vehicle purchases, Hayden Dublois, one of the report’s authors, told The Washington Times.

The Foundation for Government Accountability analysis found that 14,000 luxury vehicles were linked to food stamp enrollees.

The analysis provided a handful of specific examples. A 2020 Rolls-Royce valued at $346,000 was owned by a university professor collecting food stamps.

Another SNAP recipient, identified as a “celebrity barber,” drove a 2018 Lamborghini Huracán LP580-2 Spyder valued at $220,000.

A professional football player collecting SNAP benefits owned a 2022 BMW M760i valued at $158,000, the analysis found.

The eye-popping inventory of luxe cars tied to food stamp recipients includes:

• Three Bentleys.

• 3,636 Lexuses.


• 1,914 BMWs.

• 1,131 Cadillacs.

• Three Ferraris.

• 11 Lamborghinis.


• 59 Maseratis.

• 141 Porsches.

• 59 Jaguars.

• 244 Alfa Romeos.


• 306 Land Rovers.

• 2,098 Teslas.

Many of the vehicles listed were recently manufactured and are among the most expensive in the nation.

A Lamborghini costs more than $680,000, and a Ferrari can top $600,000. Bentleys are priced at $250,000 to $414,000. Maseratis start at $65,000 but can cost more than $200,000. The price tag for a Porsche ranges from $65,000 to more than $280,000.


“And this is just in one state. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system,” Ms. Rollins said.

She announced this week that 4.3 million Americans had been moved off SNAP under President Trump, a decrease she partly attributed to the USDA’s success in cutting fraud.

According to USDA data, 38.5 million people received SNAP benefits this January, down from 42.8 million in January 2025.

In July 2025, Mr. Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut taxes and reined in social welfare benefits. A provision in the bill expanded work requirements for some SNAP beneficiaries, which likely pushed some working-age adults out of the program.

Separate from the Foundation for Government Accountability analysis, the USDA, in an effort to end SNAP fraud, has asked states to provide comprehensive data on benefit recipients, including their dates of birth, Social Security numbers and immigration status.

A preliminary review of the data by the USDA found, among other irregularities, more than 300,000 instances of potentially deceased individuals enrolled in SNAP.

So far, 29 states, most of them Republican-led, have complied and turned over data. The rest, all Democratic-led states, including California and New York, have blocked the USDA from accessing the data, citing privacy concerns.

The analysts at the Foundation for Government Accountability found that luxury vehicle owners and wealthy people were able to sign up for food stamps through a loophole in many states called Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility.

The loophole expands SNAP eligibility to anyone, regardless of income or assets, if they use welfare brochures or toll-free hotlines that are deemed “non-cash benefits” associated with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a separate form of social welfare assistance.

“Under this scheme, states use TANF dollars to print a pamphlet or set up a hotline with information about welfare benefits. They then deem these offerings a TANF ’benefit,’ which makes anyone receiving the welfare brochure or hotline number ’categorically eligible’ for food stamps,” Foundation for Government Accountability researchers Ali Fick and Liesel Crocker reported in March.

The USDA reported that 43 states and the District of Columbia expanded food stamp eligibility through Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility.

The Clinton administration launched Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility to avoid duplicate verification of food stamp benefits for recipients enrolled in TANF, which has strict asset and income limits, and later added the pamphlet-and-hotline loophole that lets just about anyone escape asset and income scrutiny. The Obama administration further expanded broad-based categorical eligibility by encouraging states to use the brochures and hotlines to automatically qualify households for food assistance while bypassing asset and income checks.

The Trump administration is now seeking to tighten eligibility requirements. Administration officials have submitted revisions to the rule to ensure “categorical eligibility is extended only to households that have sufficiently demonstrated eligibility by qualifying for ongoing and substantial benefits from TANF-funded programs designed to assist households and move them towards self-sufficiency.”

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

This “14,000 food stamp users driving Lamborghinis” story comes from the Foundation for Government Accountability, and got laundered through the Washington Times. It’s not from any verified federal investigation. No state named, no data released, no confirmation from the AP or Reuters. Owning a car does not mean you are ineligible for SNAP, and listing brands like BMW or Lexus without age or value is just padding the outrage-bait. This is what it looks like when a talking point gets dressed up as “data” and passed off to TDS sufferers who won’t fact check it.

[Doctor Steuss]

[...] and listing brands like BMW or Lexus without age or value is just padding the outrage-bait[...]

One of my weird compulsions is to look at used car listings once a week. More often than not, I could pick up a used Alfa Romeo for less than a used Toyota with similar mileage.

As examples, here's a 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio with 100K miles for $15,000, and here's a 2014 BMW X5 with 80K miles for $14,000. Meanwhile, here's a Honda CR-V with 91K miles for $17,500.

If you're looking for a crossover, you can literally get a BMW or Alfa Romeo for less than a Honda. Curiously, Ajax's report doesn't list a Honda CR-V as being problematic to own, while receiving food assistance. Granted, if someone is buying an Alfa Romeo in lieu of a Toyota or Honda for the same price, they could likely use some help and education in budgeting projected long-term cost of ownership.

[ajax18]

[...] and listing brands like BMW or Lexus without age or value is just padding the outrage-bait[...]

One of my weird compulsions is to look at used car listings once a week. More often than not, I could pick up a used Alfa Romeo for less than a used Toyota with similar mileage.

As examples, here's a 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio with 100K miles for $15,000, and here's a 2014 BMW X5 with 80K miles for $14,000. Meanwhile, here's a Honda CR-V with 91K miles for $17,500.

If you're looking for a crossover, you can literally get a BMW or Alfa Romeo for less than a Honda. Curiously, Ajax's report doesn't list a Honda CR-V as being problematic to own, while receiving food assistance. Granted, if someone is buying an Alfa Romeo in lieu of a Toyota or Honda for the same price, they could likely use some help and education in budgeting projected long-term cost of ownership.

From the original post.

The analysis provided a handful of specific examples. A 2020 Rolls-Royce valued at $346,000 was owned by a university professor collecting food stamps.

Another SNAP recipient, identified as a “celebrity barber,” drove a 2018 Lamborghini Huracán LP580-2 Spyder valued at $220,000.

A professional football player collecting SNAP benefits owned a 2022 BMW M760i valued at $158,000, the analysis found.

Does it seem right to you that a person on food stamps owns a $346,000 Roll-Royce? I know Kishkumen is a university professor. Does he drive a Rolls Royce currently valued at $346,000?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Cherry-picked anecdotes are not evidence of systemic fraud. This whole thing traces back to the Foundation for Government Accountability (bundles of sticks pretending to care about fiscal responsibility) and got amplified by the Washington Times with zero independent verification.

No names, no case files, no indication of when those cars were bought, whether they were financed, shared, depreciated, or even accurately matched to current income.

A professor could have lost income, an athlete could be between contracts, a “celebrity barber” could be drowning in debt. SNAP is based on income at the time you apply, not a snapshot of what you owned in better days. Three vague stories with no details is not proof, it’s more Xanaxarrhea.

[Doctor Steuss]

From the original post.

The analysis provided a handful of specific examples. A 2020 Rolls-Royce valued at $346,000 was owned by a university professor collecting food stamps.

Another SNAP recipient, identified as a “celebrity barber,” drove a 2018 Lamborghini Huracán LP580-2 Spyder valued at $220,000.

A professional football player collecting SNAP benefits owned a 2022 BMW M760i valued at $158,000, the analysis found.

Does it seem right to you that a person on food stamps owns a $346,000 Roll-Royce? I know Kishkumen is a university professor. Does he drive a Rolls Royce currently valued at $346,000?

No, it doesn't seem right. Hopefully the person who did the analysis gave the information to the appropriate oversight entity. Assuming Trump hasn't already gutted that entity, and fired all of the fraud investigators and Inspectors Generals like he has a habit of doing. Fraud in any form should be prosecuted. Like, if someone were to loot a children's charity or be involved in an insurance scheme to profit off the deaths of Jewish children, I think that person should be in jail, rather than... well... just hypothetically throwing it out there, President of the United States of America.

Since this is a totally real report, how did they gain access to SNAP recipient data, and DMV records?

By the way, that 2022 BMW M760i that was supposedly valued at $158K, has a bunch of used low mileage models (same year) for under $80K... or less than a new Dodge Ram Power Wagon. Wonder why they didn't include the Dodge Ram in their analysis?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

The government has subsidized US farms to the tune of $2T over the years. Upwards of 800K farms are getting handouts every year.

If you really want to get your hair blown back, corporate hands out have totaled $15T over the last 50 years. Instead of paying taxes they get free money as our public debt explodes.

Hey, Xanax, I can keep going if you’d like. You wanna do churches next?

[Doctor Steuss]

The government has subsidized US farms to the tune of $2T over the years. Upwards of 800K farms are getting handouts every year.

If you really want to get your hair blown back, corporate hands out have totaled $15T over the last 50 years. Instead of paying taxes they get free money as our public debt explodes.

Hey, Xanax, I can keep going if you’d like. You wanna do churches next?

What's really fun about farms, is Trump's bailouts that he's given because of his disastrous trade policies have gone to foreign businesses.

I'm sure Ajax will stop supporting Trump now that he knows that Trump gave China money to help them out because of his trade war against them. He also gave $67 million to JBS (a Brazilion company). Since SNAP is funded through the same farm bill(s), I can only imagine the outrage that Ajax will now demonstrate, knowing that Trump handed over hundreds of millions of dollars to multi-billion dollar foreign companies. What kind of luxury car do you suppose the CEO of Smithfield (a subsidiary of JBS) drives? His compensation for last year was over $15,000,000. Sure glad Trump gave him a windfall of taxpayer socialist handouts.

[canpakes]

On the one hand, I guess that these ‘Republican-led’ states are rife with fraud.

On the other hand, you may not have shopped for a car lately, because some of these ‘luxury cars’ are the cheapest vehicles available to purchase. Check out the listings for ‘Land Rover Discovery’ in today’s KSL marketplace:



I don’t think that you can find a 20 year old Toyota 4Runner for anything close to those prices.

Let’s do Teslas:



Anyhow, the point is that your source is hoping to get you all worked up over folks driving ‘luxury cars’ while also hoping that you’re not smart or motivated enough to move past the loosely-defined trigger word of ‘luxury’.

That said, it’d be real interesting for your questionable source to pull numbers on how many welfare recipients are good ol’ boys with $80,000 domestic diesel pickups that they use to roll coal on any thrifty person driving a used Prius or old Tesla. Let’s really dig into this. Go see if you can find that information, then Return and Report.

[I Have Questions]

Ajax, if Trump were to suddenly switch to the Democrat Party, but operate in exactly the same way as he does now. So everything since the election would have happened in exactly the same way, except with Trump as a democrat President. What would you be saying about Trump and the current outcomes?