They do not. They hand their card directly to their drug dealer, and he buys what he wants off of it. Nobody goes to so much trouble as to buy stuff and resale it. They just sell the card and the pin number. The usual rate is two to one. For every $100.00 worth of drugs, they dealer gets $200.00 worth of EBT dollars.
“They hand their card directly to their drug dealer, and he buys what he wants off of it.”
I’m saying this because when she abandoned the place in August, with the power off, she left about $100 in EBT steaks. She took the case of beer. My friend who also has rentals told me about the resale thing. The refrigerator would have been ruined, but I learned about corpse deodorizer...$33/gallon. She may not have been sophisticate enough to do it another way.
She called the cops because her boyfriend was beating her up...they were in their late 50’s. The cops came to the door to deal with the drunk couple and noticed the 48 pot plants within easy view. This resulted in a 2:00 am SWAT raid.
Then the drug dealer launders the EBT money at a local convenience store that pretends to sell the dealer $200 worth of milk and gives the drug dealer $150 in cash.
Everybody wins.
This is the capitalist system at work with your money.