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Not true. You can go to 7-11 on food stamps around here. It depends on the area.
A 7-11 is not, by most people's definition, a fast food joint. It's true that there are many packaged foods that can be purchased at a 7-11 and they are eligible for purchase with Food Stamps.
By federal regulation, except for certain individuals in institutions or homeless individuals prepared meals are not eligible for purchase.
[SIZE=1][SIZE=1][LEFT]Eligible foods [/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=1][SIZE=1]means: (1) Any food or food product intended for human consumption
except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and hot foods and hot food products prepared for immediate consumption;
(2) Seeds and plants to grow foods for the personal consumption of eligible
households;
(3) Meals prepared and delivered by an authorized meal delivery service to
households eligible to use coupons to purchase delivered meals; or meals
served by an authorized communal dining facility for the elderly, for SSI
households or both, to households eligible to use coupons for communal dining;
(4) Meals prepared and served by a drug addict or alcoholic treatment and
rehabilitation center to narcotic addicts or alcoholics and their children
who live with them;
(5) Meals prepared and served by a group living arrangement facility to
residents who are blind or disabled as defined in paragraphs (2) through (11)
of the definition of [/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=1][SIZE=1]‘‘[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=1][SIZE=1]Elderly or disabled member[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=1][SIZE=1]’’ [/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=1][SIZE=1]contained in this section;
(6) Meals prepared by and served by a shelter for battered women and children
to its eligible residents;
(7) In the case of certain eligible households living in areas of Alaska where access to food stores is extremely difficult and the households rely on hunting and fishing for subsistence, equipment for the purpose of procuring food for eligible households, including nets, lines, hooks, fishing rods, harpoons, knives, and other equipment
necessary for subsistence hunting and fishing but not equipment for the purpose
of transportation, clothing or shelter, nor firearms, ammunition or other explosives;
(8) In the case of homeless food stamp households, meals prepared for and served by an authorized public or private nonprofit establishment (e.g. soup kitchen, temporary shelter), approved by an appropriate State or local agency, that feeds homeless ersons; and
[SIZE=1][SIZE=1](9) In the case of homeless food stamp households, meals prepared by a restaurant
which contracts with an appropriate State agency to serve meals to homeless persons at concessional (low or reduced) prices.[/LEFT]
Buy expensive food (well, not the Mountain Dew) with your food stamps, sell expensive food for half the price to get cash.
"Buying $141.78 worth of lobster, steak and Mountain Dew with a Bridge card violates no laws or rules. But turning around and selling the stuff for 50 percent of its value, well ... that's a different matter. Louis Wayne Cuff, a 33-year-old Menominee man was arraigned in 95th District Court in Menominee last week for food stamp trafficking, a felony."
Question: With all of the people on foodstamps, now, do you think this type of crime is widespread? Would it be hard to track/make a criminal case? Are people who use food stamps to make purchases allowed to use a store discount card (meaning there is a record of their purchases)?
I'm asking because I think the assumption is that people on food stamps who buy expensive food items are living large on the taxpayer's dime but what if they aren't eating the expensive food but reselling what they buy for cash? And what are they doing with that cash? There may be a whole criminal underground around food stamps and reselling food.
I have a feeling that the money raided from the US Treasury the past 40 years by the Corporate Elite and their handmaidens in Washington far excedes what some petty theives are making out there fooling around with food stamps.
I have a feeling that the money raided from the US Treasury the past 40 years by the Corporate Elite and their handmaidens in Washington far excedes what some petty theives are making out there fooling around with food stamps.
Ovcatto, I do have a serious question.
If someone is on food stamps, it's assumed that the person is low incone. That's fine.
But when someone IS on food stamps..and they have cable TV with all the extra channels, HD, DVR.. etc...they have cell phones with unlimited data plans...they seem to be frequent in new clothes --- Why do they deserve free food?
They have the money for food. They just choose to not make their food budget a priority. If you can afford cable, data plans, smoke ciggs/drink alcohol, you can afford food. It's really that simple.
A 7-11 is not, by most people's definition, a fast food joint. It's true that there are many packaged foods that can be purchased at a 7-11 and they are eligible for purchase with Food Stamps.
By federal regulation, except for certain individuals in institutions or homeless individuals prepared meals are not eligible for purchase.
It may not technically be "fast food" but I've seen people buy soda for example at 7-11 with food stamps.
Ovcatto, I do have a serious question.
If someone is on food stamps, it's assumed that the person is low incone. That's fine.
But when someone IS on food stamps..and they have cable TV with all the extra channels, HD, DVR.. etc...they have cell phones with unlimited data plans...they seem to be frequent in new clothes --- Why do they deserve free food?
They have the money for food. They just choose to not make their food budget a priority. If you can afford cable, data plans, smoke ciggs/drink alcohol, you can afford food. It's really that simple.
Food stamps are income dependent. I don't know how they afford all that if their income is at food stamp levels. I also don't know how you know they have new clothes, dvr's and unlimited text plans, etc. Why don't you talk to these friends of yours and find out how they do it?
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