Equally there are tons of instances which make it abundantly clear she's not strapped for cash either such as the times she's been shopping in Paris and bought ridiculously expensive candles or been to the Limoges shop and bought 100 euro plates.
Honestly if these poor, poor old folk who supposedly give Stephanie all their hard earned savings or those people who have to wait until the end of the month to donate to her are as gullible as all that then they surely wouldn't have any money left to send to Stephanie - they'd have already given it all to those people that come to their doors pretending to be deaf to get them to buy a £10 duster, the local one legged pigeon support group or the charity muggers on every high street!