From the article: The bottled water cost around $6 and the duo got $2.40 back in cash from the redeemed bottles. U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the SNAP program, has taken a stand on water dumping — buying beverages with food stamps, dumping the liquid and returning the empties for cash — and has proposed a new rule that could disqualify recipients who engage in the practice.
One would have to be awful desperate to not even want to use the water before getting the small fraction of its price as cash — literally nickles and dimes. Technically it’s a scam but it’s a pretty pitiful scam.
San Francisco has a reporter who found that people getting free food at the food banks were going a few blocks away & re-selling the food for what ever they could get. They got video footage of this & broadcast it a couple of nights ago on Fox station.
Free food is handed out to people with no proof of residency or ID of any kind.
Another San Francisco Liberal mistake.