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Can someone(preferably informed) please explain to me how EBT works? I was at Stop & Shop and a young girl, roughly 25 with a small infant, had a large carriage of groceries. For the most part, it looked like lots of fruits, veggies, organic meats, all natural juices, etc. She was even buying gallons of distilled water from a baby food brand for the child.
Her bill came to $117 and her EBT card paid for $112. She had to come up with $5 on her own. Is the $5 for an unqualified purchase like candy or did her EBT card only have $112 left on it? I rang out next after she left and her butter was bagged with my stuff. I noticed it at my truck and brought it over to her as she was loading up. She's driving a benz...Are you kidding me?!? My wife drives a Ford.
Before you say it wasn't her car, she had a pull down sun-shade in the backseat window and baby items in the trunk with the groceries. This was her car. "I'm all for helping people that need it, I really am"...but tell me how she can possibly afford a luxury car and need full food benefits? Are we following up with people receiving them or is this a life long deal?
Not stirring up an Anti-EBT thread, just surprised by this.
Before you say it wasn't her car, she had a pull down sun-shade in the backseat window and baby items in the trunk with the groceries. This was her car. "I'm all for helping people that need it, I really am"...but tell me how she can possibly afford a luxury car and need full food benefits? Are we following up with people receiving them or is this a life long deal?
Not stirring up an Anti-EBT thread, just surprised by this.
A few possibilities:
1) Was recently making a lot more money, lost the job, applied for benefits, didn't sell the car.
2) Money is coming in from off the books work or business.
3) Live in boyfriend brings in income and either owns the car or pays for most of her living expenses so she can afford to use her money for luxuries. Since they aren't married, the government views her as impoverished and gives benefits such as EBT.
4) Rich parents own/gave her the car
AFAIK the government does pull benefits if your income rises, but if you have access to money and resources through relationships or the black market the state doesn't care (unless and until they catch you dealing drugs or leaving income off your tax forms, in which case they care a great deal and the food stamps are the least of their and your concerns). The government asset tests in some states for some programs, and it's a generally harmful thing as it discourages people on assistance from saving money for a rainy day and means responsible taxpayers who fall on hard times find there's no safety net to catch them unless and until they practically bankrupt themselves.
The government does not count all your assets in SNAP eligibility.
Many states do not count any homes you own, any vehicles you own and do not count any pension you may be receiving.
If you keep your taxable, traceable income low and keep a small bank account that should qualify you for SNAP.
No different than how all these full time college students can all qualify for SNAP.
Savvy parents set their kids up so they can claim independence and qualify.
Can someone(preferably informed) please explain to me how EBT works? I was at Stop & Shop and a young girl, roughly 25 with a small infant, had a large carriage of groceries. For the most part, it looked like lots of fruits, veggies, organic meats, all natural juices, etc. She was even buying gallons of distilled water from a baby food brand for the child.
Her bill came to $117 and her EBT card paid for $112. She had to come up with $5 on her own. Is the $5 for an unqualified purchase like candy or did her EBT card only have $112 left on it? I rang out next after she left and her butter was bagged with my stuff. I noticed it at my truck and brought it over to her as she was loading up. She's driving a benz...Are you kidding me?!? My wife drives a Ford.
Before you say it wasn't her car, she had a pull down sun-shade in the backseat window and baby items in the trunk with the groceries. This was her car. "I'm all for helping people that need it, I really am"...but tell me how she can possibly afford a luxury car and need full food benefits? Are we following up with people receiving them or is this a life long deal?
Not stirring up an Anti-EBT thread, just surprised by this.
Real simple, she or her husband bought it before they fell on hard times, happened to many people. If it is paid off then why would they want to sell a good car and get some junker that will be nothing but an expensive money pit. Of the parents could have given or loaded it to her. It is easy to assume, but why if you were so curious didn't you simply ask her in a respectful way, maybe you would not be now wonder what the deal was.
Can someone(preferably informed) please explain to me how EBT works? I was at Stop & Shop and a young girl, roughly 25 with a small infant, had a large carriage of groceries. For the most part, it looked like lots of fruits, veggies, organic meats, all natural juices, etc. She was even buying gallons of distilled water from a baby food brand for the child.
Her bill came to $117 and her EBT card paid for $112. She had to come up with $5 on her own. Is the $5 for an unqualified purchase like candy or did her EBT card only have $112 left on it? I rang out next after she left and her butter was bagged with my stuff. I noticed it at my truck and brought it over to her as she was loading up. She's driving a benz...Are you kidding me?!? My wife drives a Ford.
Before you say it wasn't her car, she had a pull down sun-shade in the backseat window and baby items in the trunk with the groceries. This was her car. "I'm all for helping people that need it, I really am"...but tell me how she can possibly afford a luxury car and need full food benefits? Are we following up with people receiving them or is this a life long deal?
Not stirring up an Anti-EBT thread, just surprised by this.
Yes you are If it upsets you so much that your wife is driving "only" a Ford, I suggest you save your money and buy her a Mercedes, just like this fictitious family has.
Not stirring up an Anti-EBT thread, just surprised by this.
That's because you haven't seen the many threads by people who join C-D then tell a story about seeing a person using an EBT card who gets into a Benz. Sometimes they get into an Escalade with expensive rims. The OP is almost always driving a Ford. For some reason the brand-new poster who sees the woman getting into the Benz/Escalade never drives a Toyota, VW or Dodge. But the woman getting the groceries always chooses organic beef.
So do you always snoop to see the total of what someone else pays? Perhaps, as a public courtesy, you can just announce the total of your next purchase so the guy in back of you in line won't have to bump you with his cart so he can see how much you spend. You know... one snoop to another.... professional courtesy.
That's because you haven't seen the many threads by people who join C-D then tell a story about seeing a person using an EBT card who gets into a Benz. Sometimes they get into an Escalade with expensive rims. The OP is usually driving a Ford. For some reason the brand-new poster who sees the woman getting into the Benz/Escalade never drives a Toyota, VW or Dodge. But the woman getting the groceries always chooses organic beef. Weird.
LOL. And they are usually making payments to some local car dealer who will repo it one hour after a missed payment and put it back in the lot for the next sucker to come along and buy.
Can someone(preferably informed) please explain to me how EBT works? I was at Stop & Shop and a young girl, roughly 25 with a small infant, had a large carriage of groceries. For the most part, it looked like lots of fruits, veggies, organic meats, all natural juices, etc. She was even buying gallons of distilled water from a baby food brand for the child.
Her bill came to $117 and her EBT card paid for $112. She had to come up with $5 on her own. Is the $5 for an unqualified purchase like candy or did her EBT card only have $112 left on it? I rang out next after she left and her butter was bagged with my stuff. I noticed it at my truck and brought it over to her as she was loading up. She's driving a benz...Are you kidding me?!? My wife drives a Ford.
Before you say it wasn't her car, she had a pull down sun-shade in the backseat window and baby items in the trunk with the groceries. This was her car. "I'm all for helping people that need it, I really am"...but tell me how she can possibly afford a luxury car and need full food benefits? Are we following up with people receiving them or is this a life long deal?
Not stirring up an Anti-EBT thread, just surprised by this.
I see it all the time around here, even the kids get Benefits cards. A lot of laborers have a strict cash only economy so they aren't reporting anything to the Feds. And I see the same thing you do...people paying with their benefits card then putting their groceries into their new SUV. The American taxpayer is being gamed.
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If it upsets you so much that your wife is driving "only" a Ford, I suggest you save your money and buy her a Mercedes, just like this fictitious family has.
