I’m sure that all the folks who blew past the limits on their cards will have to pay back the overage. Right? [sarc off]
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Oh sure, just like the poor oppressed federal employees who have applied for unemployment benefits while they are on their “bonus (ultimately to be) paid vacations. Yes, these wonderful feds will be determined to have been overpaid unemployment benefits once they receive their federal retro pay for their non-work hours. But their fellow government employees at their state unemployment offices will no doubt waive repayment of the unemployment benefits due to “hardship”.
The takers take—that’s what they know. So these feds and EBT holders will mostly get to keep their latest windfalls. I thought WalMart would have known better.
WalMart will eat the loss.
A few years ago, we had a break-in while visiting my Sister in law in CA. They stole my business checkbook and one of them forged payroll type checks on my business account for $1500. The DA went after me, even though I had signed an affidavit of fraud and filed a police report. They had the guys fingerprint, and info and knew him but refused to do anything to him.
Walmart does not control EBT cards or their spending. All those transactions go through the Food Stamp Program computers just like a Debit Card does.