Here in New Mexico it is common to see someone checking out at the grocery store while using 3 or 4 (or more) EBT cards.
After one ahead of me checked out I asked the checkout girl, what was the deal? Isn’t that fraudulent? Or even theft?
No, she says. It seems that those poor souls who live in the middle of nowhere will send their friends into the big city of Rio Rancho with a grocery list and their EBT cards. One person may be shopping for half a dozen families.
Sure they are.
LOL!
Drug users give their cards to their dealer for drugs. Then, when the cards are recharged the dealer uses them for twice the value of the drugs and returns them.
Or keeps them for the next month.
Kids are fed by schools and food pantries.
This would be stopped by a signature system of course.