Prob means a debit EBT card but called them food stamps.
A few yrs ago someone was at a convenience store in Lynn MA and bought a bunch of soda cans via an EBT card. She then
took the cans ==still full of soda== and deposited them in the redemption machine (thus damaging it) to get a refund of the deposit. It turned out she had a fake name and a bunch of EBT cards with different names.
At a convenience store in Beverly MA tonight someone tried to pay for some stuff with their EBT but the clerk told them they were down to their last 79 cents on it.
“It’s the first of the month, there should be some money left in it...oh well, I’ll come back tomorrow”. She left the stuff with the clerk to put back. Your tax dollars at work.
There was a story on here a few years back where people were buying cases of bottled water on their EBT cards and then going out in the parking lot and emptying them out then going back and recycling for the cash
$3.99/case and get back $1.20 cash. The difference? Tax dollars