{"id":190033,"date":"2015-01-22T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=190033"},"modified":"2015-01-22T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:00:07","slug":"several-dozen-guam-violate-food-stamp-welfare-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/several-dozen-guam-violate-food-stamp-welfare-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Several dozen in Guam violate food stamp, welfare rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAGATNA, Guam<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Several dozen people on Guam have had their federal food stamp and welfare benefits suspended for violating program policies.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Daily News reports 26 people were disqualified during the last three months of 2014 for failing to timely report employment.<\/p>\n<p>The territory\u2019s Department of Public Health and Social Services said Tuesday 20 people were disqualified for buying ineligible items with their benefits cards.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 16,000 households including more than 47,000 people received food stamps on Guam as of October.<\/p>\n<p>First-time violators will be suspended for a year. Second-time violators may not receive benefits for two years. The department says one person was disqualified permanently after violating the rules for a third time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGATNA, Guam (AP)\u2014Several dozen people on Guam have had their federal food stamp and welfare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,51,67,120],"class_list":["post-190033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-food","tag-guam","tag-people","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}