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Originally Posted by snowy
who wishes to be reimbursed for purchasing food for an event that no one showed up for.
this person most likely bought the food with food stamps, and expects a cash reimbursement.
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If you have the legitimate need to use food stamps in order to feed yourself and your family then you should not be using them to purchase food for an "event".
What if people would have showed up, there would have been no claim to be reimbursed, how was this person going to feed themselves and their family for the remainder of the month when the food stamps designed for that were spent on other people and an event?
If you can afford to use your government entitlement to feed other people, then pay to feed yourself and family the rest of the month, you probably don't need food stamps to begin with.
I'm voting no, reimbursement is not warranted here.
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Originally Posted by snowy
EBT where we are works like cash. You have a cash balance on a debit card, and it is essentially like paying with cash.
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It appears to work like cash but it doesn't. The food stamp portion isn't cash, it is a food stamp entitlement on the card.
There are two different balances that can be on the card, one is food stamps and one is (what it is called in Florida) AFDC, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which is the "welfare" cash.
There are restrictions on the bar codes that separate what can be purchased with food stamps and what can not. You can purchase any food including seeds and food bearing plants with food stamps but can not purchase non food, alcohol, cigarettes and any hot food, like hot rotisserie chicken, hot fried chicken - anything hot from the deli. You can purchase it cold, but not hot, I have no idea what that is about.
When the food stamp card is swiped, the computer system will separate what can be purchased and what can't, so if there are items not allowed, after swiping, there will be a balance due. At that point, if they have a cash balance (welfare) they can reswipe the card to pay that portion, or they have to pay cash.