You know it's kind of ironic, but your car, while your salvation in one sense, is a curse in another. It is the ownership of an "asset" and the receipt of the five hundred dollars to pay for it that keeps your food stamp allowance so low. Being the devious rodent that I am, I can't avoid musing out loud that if you were able to transfer or conceal the ownership of that vehicle, you could... well you get the idea.