This is how they able to use them in Strip clubs and Casinos.
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It isn’t allowed.
The SNAP and TANF benefits are from separate accounts.
The person simply got cash from the TANF side, which is what it is — a cash debit account.
There is no cash back from the food side.
Seriously, it appears that EBT cards are now used for both the teh “Food Stamp” program and for “Welfare” in general. The Food Stamp money can only be used for food. The Welfare money is available as “cash back” etc....
Are you kidding me? So they can get $50 back and go spend it on drugs, and WE ARE SUPPORTING THIS? Can any congressperson bring this up, can a Sean Hannity put this on TV?
Even low info liberals wouldn’t want to straight up give people cash. Even the most starry eyed do-gooder wants them to have food and shelter, not pot and meth.
Been going on for at least a year. We have a elderly neighbor on assistance (EBT). He was delighted that he could get cash and buy what he whatever wants. As he put it “being stuck with buying food alone made life difficult”.
I had to walk away.
They’re not withdrawing money from food stamps, ie. SNAP benefits, it’s some form of cash welfare benefits either from your State or the Federal Government. EBT stands for Electronic Benefits Transfer and isn’t limited to food stamps.
So, the government “changed” the rules such that they are able to simply withdraw cash from the treasury.
Isn’t that special?
Beats 40 acres and a mule, doesn’t it?
Does that also mean that those cards were not shut off for the shut-down?
There are two types of benefits. One for foodstamps and one for cash benefit (welfare). You can buy anything on the cash benefit.
I find it absolutely incredible that people believe this.
It’s not SNAP, it’s one of the other welfare giveaways that working people are forced to give to.
The cashier was merely mistaken. She doesn’t need to know where the money came from.
It came from you and her, that’s all that matters.
Switzerland is about to institute a Guaranteed Minimum Income for all citizens (about $36,000 per year).
Sooner or later I imagine we’ll drop all the pretense about forcing people to eat the right foods and do likewise.
the card had two parts. cash assistance aka welfare and food. not everyone gets cash.u have to select.
It’s about $20, which doesn’t go far to buy toilet paper, much less gambling in a casino.
Yes, many programs like the EBT or Texas Lone Star Card allow the user to get cash back. I posted a reply some months ago about a customer in a food mart getting back $50 cash, put the two bags of groceries in her car and walked two doors down to the liquor store. I watched and she came out with a bottle of booze. Pissed me off.
Well I used to joke that: Use your EBT card to post bail.
Probably not a joke anymore.
Bread and Circuses™
What an irony. As some of you all know I have been unemployed and have been sending out resumes in and out. So far I only had gotten 1 interview..sigh. Anyway I have come to an end I won’t be able to pay rent. So I had no choice but to apply for food stamps and for General Assistance.
So today I went for an orientation as I sat there I was sitting next to a standing Sheriff and this gentlemen which they were conversing. They were talking about the poltics in California. The Sheriff says “thanks to the Liberal media, they are protecting the political crap that is going on”. I thought WOW a sheriff who hate liberals LOL. Also they talked about the Raiders coming to Concord. The sheriff says if they are moving in, Im moving out LOL.
Then a few minutes later, in comes this dude with a funny hat on him kinda like the pic of ODumbo wore in that pic of him wearing that funny costume. Then came after him a woman with a stroller. WHOA!!!!! She was all in a burka - I kid you not. I thought it was Halloween already. I wanted to burst out laughing but I held it in. I felt I was living in the Middle East. Everyone including Hispanics were just like WTF!!! but they tried not to keep staring at her. So I went to the 10min orientation and we were to return to the lobby in which they will call our name and we were given our next appointment to meet our case worker. So when my name was called I got up and boom almost ran into the Burka Lady and her stroller and I was expecting a foreign accent. Nope she had a clear English vocabulary. I though “O sheesh must be one of those liberal woman who got seduce into Islam over diversity”.
What a day today was. I just hope and pray I find a job soon I hate being under government teat. May I request prayers that God allow me to find a job so I may become self-reliant again.