[jughandle]

Public benefit cards allow cash withdrawals?? Are we nuts?

[MrB]

It’s so they don’t have to exert themselves going to the mailbox to get their welfare check and then make a trip to the bank to cash it, etc...
Too much burden.

Now we just credit their EBT cards with cash. And better yet, it looks just like a debit/credit card so there’s no “stigma” associated with using it!

[Drew68]

Public benefit cards allow cash withdrawals?? Are we nuts?

This was part of the quid pro quo of the so-called "welfare reform" enacted during the Clinton Administration.

And, yes, nobody should be shocked that when we let people withdraw their welfare cash from ATM machines, that some of these machines are going to be located in casinos, cruise ships, brothels, bars, Disney World and now pot shops.

As they say, "Don't hate the player. Hate the game!"

[from occupied ga]

Public benefit cards allow cash withdrawals?? Are we nuts?

Been that way for years. And yes it is totally nuts.