[Roccus]

How can you tell a gov’t. EBT card from a bank debit and/or credit card?

[tapatio]

Where I live the EBT cards look like this.

[RWGinger]

How can you tell a gov’t. EBT card from a bank debit and/or credit card?
One way is to see the card. While it looks like a debit etc the name on the cars is easy to read. The Texas Lone Star card is white with a big LONE STAR in the top left corner.

Not hard to see
and the free loaders have to pay separately for items not covered by food stamps so after they swipe their cards the cashier will have to tell them how much they owe for the beer etc

[NorthMountain]

The EBT cards have distinctive artwork; they’re highly recognizable.

[Vigilanteman]

They are mostly a solid color, green, orange tan or blue, sometimes with a logo of the same color on a light background. The older ones even clearly say "EBT". They are generally absent the MasterCard or Visa logo. Yeah, it is getting harder to tell because the ObaMao administration doesn't want to "stigmatize" the poor little dears. But I get around a lot, used to work retail and know all the clues.

Dead giveaways, in addition to the foregoing, are cards from a bank you've never heard of (or can't find on-line) and separate cash transactions for tobacco. Nationwide, I think the percent of tobacco users is around 30%. Among EBT card users, it is 70% plus.

Long story short is that the new disguises might fool the low information voter and a few others. But there are ways of finding these things out which don't require much effort.

[Vigilanteman]

Another thing: You can go online with an image search, Bing, Google or whomever. Just type in the name (even abbreviation) of your state and words like EBT card, benefits card, benefits security card.

You will come up with the most common images.

I did this. Some of the states have multiple choices and some really cool designs. A few even have a place for the photograph of the users. The most common type here in Pennsylvania is a green background with the "Access" logo.

I'm actually surprised that more states don't sign crony capitalism deals with banks to use the more common MasterCard, Visa, Discover or American Express logos to disguise the cards better

[Gaffer]

In my state, the loser’s card is two peaches shown on a green background. You can google your state’s ICON of sloths and find out. That one card collects everything but the WICs certificates.