As you know, a common scam is for a corrupt grocer to redeem EBT cards for cash, skim some off the top for him/herself and give the rest of the cash to the EBT holder. The EBT holder can then spend the money on cigarettes, drugs, booze, lap dances, gambling - whatever. Are you glad to be doing your part to keep all those vice industries solvent?
Then legally limiting what EBT can be used on would have no effect on the abuse rate.
The only solution that comes to my mind at this point is to eliminate the fungibility/currency factor of EBT and have the needy come to a distribution point for food.
” Are you glad to be doing your part to keep all those vice industries solvent?”
I’m not sure how I’m personally keeping them solvent. But I’ll be running credit checks from now on. Talking to other landlords they have their worst problems (damage) from EBT users and Section 8 renters.