Step Up Enforcement

Re “Far From A Luxury,” editorial, May 15: A 5-year-old Toyota, or any other car worth about $7,000 or more, currently disqualifies most families from receiving food stamps? Not in my neighborhood. As a resident of Los Feliz since 1983, I can no longer stand to shop for groceries in my neighborhood and witness welfare fraud every time I go to the check stand. Time after time, I would see well-dressed customers purchase groceries with food stamps or WIC vouchers and then wheel their carts out to the parking lot and unload their goods into new sport-utility or other luxury vehicles. Instead of adjusting our current laws regarding public assistance, why not just step up enforcement? Until then, I’ll continue to purchase groceries in another neighborhood.

Eric Frase

Los Feliz