I looked, there are a ton of stories pushing this angle:
“Since there’s a fee for every withdrawal, the limit means that some families will get substantially less money.”
But I really doubt there isn’t a way to get around the fee, Who ever is the bank issuer of the card typically doesn’t charge a fee. I couldn’t find information on the cards in order to validate this though.
“....But the new provision limiting what the poor can do with their debit cards is causing particular problems for Kansas because it could conflict with federal rules that appear to require that states provide beneficiaries with “adequate access” to their benefits, putting more than $100 million in funding for the program in jeopardy. Brownback told McClatchy last week that he planned to work with administrators in Washington to make sure that money remains available for poor families. It is not clear what that would involve.
Lawmakers said they implemented the provision because they wanted to be sure that beneficiaries weren’t wasting the federal money available through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a small program that, unlike food stamps or housing assistance, provides parents and children funds they can use for all kinds of purchases. A single mother with two children is a typical beneficiary, and a family of three in Kansas received an average of $354 a month in 2012, according to the most recent federal data.
About 11,000 households received money through the program in Kansas that year, and a third of recipients were working. The rest have to show they are looking for work to be able to qualify.
The legislature was worried that those receiving benefits might withdraw their entire benefit in cash at once and spent it extravagantly....”