Welfare recipients should be restricted to basic staple food items, period.
I have never understood why this rule was not implemented. It is common sense. If the people who are providing the tax payer money to EBT users are buying scratch food to save money then why the h*’ll can people on EBT have freedom to buy expensive. Frankly, it should be the most basic of staples. If it was not easy people would not stay on & hopefully the single parent birthrate would go down. Stop rewarding people. There is absolutely no reason people can’t cook from scratch. People learn very quickly when things are taken away. And if you cannot afford children then don’t have them! Taxpayers are tired of being human piggy banks.
agree, should be something akin to WIC. Specific food product items only. Defined and targeted toward the recipients age bracket.
If someone is SO well-fed that they have extra cash to spend at the track, strip clubs, liquor stores, casinos, etc. then they really don't "need that money to live on/feed their family/ republicans want to starve children".
The instant someone uses them for "vices", the cards should be canceled.