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Nashville mother charged with food stamp fraud for claiming benefits in missing daughter's name

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Amber Jayanth, Akim Powell

14d ago· 2 min readenNews

Summary

A Nashville mother, Shannon Anderson (51), has been arrested and charged with felony food stamp fraud for allegedly collecting food stamp benefits in the name of her daughter, Jodie "Brooke" Anderson, who has been missing since August 9, 2017. Brooke was 18 when she was last seen with her mother at a Jack in the Box restaurant. The case highlights the exploitation of a missing person's identity for government benefits.

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Your baby's missing and your capitalizing by going on and drawing government benefits. That's unacceptable.
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A mother in Nashville is accused of collecting food stamp benefits in the name of her daughter, who has been missing for nine years.

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