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Many people are confused about EBT cards and think that they are only for food stamps. And people with an agenda might conflate the two to stir up outrage.
I didn't know one could buy cigarettes on a food stamp swipe card.. I thought it was for food.
A women was fired for refusing to allow a customer to pay for the cigarettes with her food stamps.
Absolutely ridiculous. The Food Stamp card should be only used for well, Food Stamps. If conservatives want to be mad about something with welfare, food stamps, etc then I give them permission to be mad at that.
Many people are confused about EBT cards and think that they are only for food stamps. And people with an agenda might conflate the two to stir up outrage.
EBT cards are not for food stamps food stamps no longer exist. you have one card for food,one for wic and one for Disneyland , smokes,casino's and vacation. How could you not vote democrat today is a mystery,unless you work for a living. sorry sucka
You most certainly may not legally buy cigarettes with food stamps. The clerk was fired for refusing to take part in a criminal act.
Actually, you can not buy cigarettes with SNAP funds. EBT cards are used for more things than just accessing SNAP funds. Some states give cash benefits to certain recipients and allow them to be accessed with EBT cards (actually, that's the only usual way of accessing them). If the EBT card is loaded with this sort of benefits, it functions exactly like a debit card. If you read the article, this is exactly what the man was trying to do. It's totally legal, and in my opinion, as an employee she really had no business dictating her own beliefs on a legal transaction. I've been on General Assistance before (which is one of the programs that loads your EBT with cash), and although I generally disagree with EBT cards being used to buy cigarettes, refusing to let him pay with his EBT card would be equivalent to me, as a Catholic, refusing to ring up condoms, and lecturing the customer on why they are immoral.
Well tax money shouldn't go toward someone's cigs. If someone wants to buy those cigs that are proven to cause health risks, they can do it with their own money.
Come on people fraud in government programs is common place. Its not just the poor purchaser involved either;its a multi billion dollars fraud business.Unreported income tax fraud is estmated at costing government 300 Billion last year in loss revenues alone.That means its not just the rich; who are really audited much more frequently than we are.
I will say these threads are an education. Is somebody going to tell me what an EBT card is?
I side with the employee. Unless she was rude to the patron, the person who hired her should have explained the different welfare information. I wouldn't have a clue what it can be used for. One wonders if a little more than the refusal went on. I don't click in and read the articles for safety purposes. My husband told me not to.
I had never realized how difficult being a grocery store clerk is until I was asked to monitor a person who had to do community service because she had mistakenly sold liquor to an under age person without checking his driver's license. The person she sold it to was a police officer with his police suit on. She said she didn't know you could be a policeman and be too young to drink alcoholic beverages.
I monitored several people for different reasons that I never asked about but I was told a bunch of stories. I only closely watched one of the people I monitored. He had tried to steal a TV at a store. He was a teen and his parents had money enough to keep him out of jail. Most of them were just people who were not really criminals. They had just done wrong things because they did not know any better. I wonder if that is what happened here. I guess being fired for that is better than ending up doing community service if it had been against the law to use the card for that.
How many people on here really know that in the area where she worked it is not against the law to use the card to buy non-food items. I am one of those thinking the government should not be giving people money to buy unhealthy items. They could go pick up cans along the road to get the money to smoke.
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