Food stamps may soon be available for online shopping

Business Insider ^ | September 15, 2016 | Christina Beck, The Christian Science Monitor

[2ndDivisionVet]

Online shopping has long been a boon for most Americans, whether they hate the scrutinizing stares of fellow shoppers, the chaos of big stores, or simply can't get out the door.

Soon, modifications to the federal food stamp program, SNAP, might make the benefits of online shopping available to some who could need it most: the many recipients who live in areas where there are fewer healthy grocery stores, known as "food deserts."

On Thursday, the Department of Agriculture began asking for companies to join a pilot project to allow SNAP recipients to purchase their groceries online. If successful after a two-year pilot period, the program may be expanded....

[Pearls Before Swine]

With respect to the truly homebound, I don’t have a problem either.

But there’s also a lot of abuse in the program as it sits. To use the excuse that people should have home delivery, which I consider something of a luxury (extra costs involved), because their feeling are hurt when others notice they are using EBT strikes me as abusive... to me, the taxpayer.

[i_robot73]

>I don’t think it should be abolished, as there are some food needy people. It should go backwards in time. Government trucks/distribution warehouse should make available basic staples, like they used to. Beans, canned pork, some of that orange cheese, rice, sugar. It shouldn’t be a luxury charge program, or worse yet, delivered straight to your welfare door.
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Yet another example of WHY we’re in the boat we’re in\lose the debate before word one. “I think we shouldn’t violate the Constitution...except in *this* instance...”. (Facepalm)

Whom defines ‘needy’ better than those whose time\$$ is being DONATED? There’s certainly very little ‘poor’ in this country.
How long before a ‘fixed’ system turns into the same quagmire that it is today?

We either have a 5th\13th+, or we don’t.

[Fungi]

Food stamps should only apply to staples, uncooked food and no beverages. It used to be that way but it has been liberalized by the idiot bureaucrats who are obviously smarter than all of us as their tyranny makes us all fools. As for for me, I subscribe to this: II thess. 3:10: For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."

Atlas will shrug at some point. Atlas has visited Venezuela, do you really think we are exempt from his visit? Think again.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Private charity is the only real charity.

[ConservaTeen]

The Ross Store in the Ghetto of Tampa has a sign that say ‘We ACCEPT EBT’,I mean really... EBT for CLOTHES??

[steve86]

Why would EBT not be accepted for clothes?

[steve86]

Good comments you’ve made but one small correction — energy drinks do not qualify for SNAP.

[tbw2]

With all the different cans I’ve seen people buy with SNAP, I thought that was part of the mix.

If the government wants to solve obesity among the poor, a simple solution is changing the rules on what they can buy with SNAP to exclude soda and junk food.