You would assume that, but in reality the EBT program SUPPLEMENTS other sources of income (like cash payments). So it gives them a higher food budget and allows them to afford the very best (at our expense) while saving their cash for things like ordinary food, beer, pet food, cigarettes and lotto tickets. Personally if anyone on EBT has a pet (other than rats, ants, mice or cockroaches) this should be enough to disqualify them from the program.
It isn't like most of them would starve if we weren't paying for their life style. They would have to cut back on their immediate gratifications. (like beer, pot, cigarettes and scratch off tickets)
I have had enough of this crap....build large mobile home parks, GIVE the welfare recipients a home, pay for the heat, electricity and water. Put a government store in that sells surplus dairy, beef, poultry and produce. They get a roof over thier heads, food in their belly, and the chilin get to take the bus to school.......probably save a fortune, and the savings can be put back into the socialist security fund, where they were stolen from in the first place....