Has this ever happened to you while doing charity work?

At two of the places I worked, we would get together baskets of food & gifts for families/kids in need & would distribute them around the holidays. This was a huge, nationally known charity. Most of the families were so appreciative and were actually in need. However, some of them were unreal &how they got on the list of the needy was beyond me. Twice when I went we left the baskets & gifts at homes that had computers, internet, cable, a nice TV, stereo. The mother was on the couch, no kids in sight, & just waved to us & said "put them on the table" &went back to watching her soaps. No thank you or anything - like it was her due to receive this stuff. Amazing how she got on this needy list, taking things away from those that really needed them. I blame the charity. Their warehouses were packed with things to distribute. From then on, we went with smaller charities & churches who actually knew the needy families. What kind of experiences have you had?
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At least once a month, some one in our parish cites a story, such as yours, as the reason that they don't contribute to food banks and charities. Sadly, this sort of thing does happen. If you have ever been part of a charity screening process; you'd probably notice that the interview process is pretty basic. Charities ask a few basic questions such as name, address, number of kids, and income. And if someone has phony ID or is borrowing a neighbors or relatives ID? We have really no way to determine if they are who they say they are...and, forget about asking for social security numbers; with the new privacy laws, we can't even ask for those any more. It's a challenge for sure. Certainly, charities could require all kinds of ID to "weed out" the cheaters ~ we could demand birth certificates, and rental agreements, tax returns, utility bills and all sorts of things. However, people who are homeless or in living in excruciating poverty do not have this sort of information. Do we deny them food because they can't prove that they need it? It's a fine line that we have to walk when comes to helping the poor ~ but, I've always been of the opinion that is better to let a few scoundrels slip through the cracks, than to deny food to hundreds of others who haven't eaten in a week.
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