Posted on 03/16/2019 11:31:14 AM PDT by PROCON
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) There is a new bill working its way through the Statehouse to allow people to use food stamps to buy fast food.
Right now, you can only use that money to buy groceries at a store or farmers market but if this bill is signed into law, you could order a burger at the nearest fast food joint.
House Bill 3343 would establish a Restaurant Meals Program to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. If passed, recipients can use their monthly allotment to buy meals from restaurants.
Only certain recipients qualify: the elderly, disabled, homeless people and their spouses.
Somebody who's homeless, for example, they don't have a place to prepare that food or somebody who's disabled, they're not able to come home and cook a meal themselves, State Representative Tom Demmer, R-Dixon, said.
Although Demmer supports the bill, but he also has some concerns.
The prices of foods at restaurants are higher than what it might be at the grocery store and so, there's a little bit of a trade-off there. So we want to make sure people aren't running out of benefits at the end of the month, Demmer said.
If the bill becomes law, restaurants will have to be certified to participate in the program.
They're already participating on the grocery side of it and hopefully it's a relatively simple process to get certified on the restaurant side, Demmer said.
California and Arizona already have similar programs set up where you can use SNAP benefits at Subway and Jack-in-the-Box.
“Dont want to be told what to do, dont take the Kings Coin.”
Damn. That slogan should be on every EBT card. Brilliant.
What this’ is about is if the stores deli counter offers pre cooked items like BBQ chicken or prepared sandwiches or a complete blue plate luncheon special they can now get with their snap card. Before it wasn’t allowed and was a separate cash charge.
They accept the cash side of EBT. Theyre nothing but debit cards anyway.
There seem to be too many physical altercations across the countera few recorded at YouTube.
Fast food also includes Arthur Treacher's, Long John Silver's, Captain D's, Skipper's and Alfie's Fish & Chipsyum!
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For every dollar spent in a non-grocery store/facility, 50 cents should be deducted from their stipends....if they can afford to waste money on higher-priced crap, they obviously don’t need the extra money.
Uber lib Austin, TX, the stores sell reusable bags at the check out or charge 10 cents for plastic bags which the store keeps as I understand it. Dallas, TX had done the same but it only lasted a few months. I think I’ve only seen one person ever using reusable bags.
Think I’ll buy tons of groceries, have the checkout person put them into the cart, then ask for assistance getting it all into my car. I’m a senior citizen.
Can’t count the number of people I have overheard that are on food stamps and pan handle for cash.
Its a lot.
Great minds.
That's Pritzker on the right, and his wife just to the left.
If you're spending others tax-dollars to eat, we have every right to tell you what you can and cannot spend those dollars on.
Don't like it? Get off welfare and earn your own money. Until then STFU and do as you're told, moocher.
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