A lot of the fraud could be eliminated by greatly limiting what can be bought with food stamps.
I know of EBT card holders who buy very expensive food items and then sell them in their neighborhood for $.60 on the dollar.
If those expensive food items weren’t available for purchase with food stamps...
Seems like I saw an article recently about allowing food stamps to pay for fast food like McDonalds. Pure insanity.
“A lot of the fraud could be eliminated by greatly limiting what can be bought with food stamps.’
Agreed. 26 yrs ago when my husband and I had our first child I stayed home to care for our daughter and he worked...often 2 jobs...to pay for trailer rent and other bills. We were offered WIC which we did accept for one year. THAT is a MUCH better form of help. It said exactly what you could get which included milk, cheese, beans, bread, healthy cereals, formula (which I didn’t need as I breast fed) not ANYTHING that was junk period.
totally agree EBT/food stamps should also state what can and cannot be purchased. Now...I’m not saying anyone on EBT shouldn’t be able to buy a cake mix for their kid on his or her b’day...but there must be a limitation.
Local pizza stop, just got my treat for the next two weeks, a 6 buck pizza. EBT of course accepted.
If I run a business, it will have NO EBT sign.
Exactly. No crap like soda and chips. No crap like TV dinners and other outrageously expensive frozen goods. Let ‘em buy flour, corn meal, powdered milk, raw onions, taters and as a bonus 59 cent pot pies from Aldi. I’m sure that there are some other like items they could buy.