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Funding gives EBT users access to online shopping
Troy Record (NY) ^
| August 29, 2014
| Staff
Posted on 08/29/2014 3:47:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BERNE - A 21st-century Albany County initiative that combines farmers markets with online shopping is receiving extra funds to continue growth.
State Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Paul Tonko announced Wednesday that FarmieMarket Online LLC, based in the town of Berne, is receiving $24,490 in federal funding.
The SNAP’s monthly electronic benefit transfers (EBT) dollars, which 95,000 individuals and their families in the Capital Region currently receive, cannot be used in many online food stores, but only at authorized retail food stores.
The new program will allow EBT users to order fresh food online with the benefit money, which will then be delivered to their homes, as FarmieMarket always operates.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ebt; foodstamps; snap; welfare
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Are car dealers, jewelry stores and travel agents next?
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posted on
08/29/2014 3:48:40 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/29/2014 3:50:12 PM PDT
by
Signalman
To: Signalman
How about liquor stores?
Drug pushers???
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posted on
08/29/2014 4:13:22 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Never have to leave the house at all.
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posted on
08/29/2014 4:13:52 PM PDT
by
Salman
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Emergency care packages are all that should be provided by gov.
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posted on
08/29/2014 4:15:16 PM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
In my beloved Gay State criminals routinely use their EBT cards to withdraw $$$ from ATMs for bail money.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’m sure Moo the Lunch Nazi will be impressed.
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posted on
08/29/2014 4:36:40 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(If you are reading this then you are probably one of the NWO designated 6.5 billion excess people.)
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posted on
08/29/2014 5:10:35 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: Salman
Never have to leave the house at all. That is the absolute brilliance of this program. Keep them out of the public eye.
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posted on
08/29/2014 5:29:44 PM PDT
by
onona
(My mind = gallimaufry)
To: FreeAtlanta
Waiting for someone to figure out how to make money off the offline program- oh I know, EBT cards get hacked and steal the money off the cards. Brillant!
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posted on
08/29/2014 5:32:24 PM PDT
by
Engedi
To: Oldeconomybuyer
An EBT card is a debit card.
The idea users can buy fresh food is welcome and increasingly, online shopping is where grocery buying is. Fast, convenient and secure.
And good for the environment, too.
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posted on
08/29/2014 5:38:57 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Signalman
Naw, liquor stores still have to be looted.
Geez, we can’t afford all these extra services they’re getting. Who’s being treated like slaves now, huh? Perhaps that is that the whole point.
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posted on
08/29/2014 5:49:29 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
08/29/2014 8:04:06 PM PDT
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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