EBT should be limited to rice and beans. Maybe some of the cheaper veg too. Just the basics to provide nutrition. If you are receiving EBT you shouldn’t be worried about how fancy and flavorful your meals are. You should be dropping to your knees and thanking the rest of us who are paying for you to survive.
You have to incentivize people. If you can get a good steak on EBT why would they ever got off of it.
FWIW, I see about two of three EBT card users in the checkout lines around here buying food I can’t afford and, more often than not, driving off in cars that I can’t afford either.
WIC users with small children have a severely restricted list of eligible items. I don’t know why similar restrictions shouldn’t apply to EBT card users.
Then there are the ones with smartphones who walk out to $20k cars. She thinks about a third of them are working under the table.
Food only, selected by a nutritionist to fit (generally) the family.
They should want to get off it, without killing them outright, as quickly as possible.
No cash, no steaks, nothing but healthy food that will keep them alive.
/johnny