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Originally Posted by thingstodo
In the US food stamps in the form of an EBT card is just like cash. As long as items such as booze and smokes aren't purchased it just doesn't matter.
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But it isn't "just like cash". It can be spent that way, but the person receiving those benefits signs a contract, if you like, that says that they understand that money is to be used for the people they designate as being part of the FSU- the food stamp unit. They agree to it before they get that card, it's part of the application process, and that money is supposed to only go to their family. My paycheck is my paycheck, and that does work just like cash, because it IS, and I have no contractual obligation to use that money for anything other than what I want. The whole FNS program was founded to feed people who couldn't feed themselves and their families, not to feed people who couldn't feed their coworkers at the company picnic.