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True story: A woman in front of me today was trying to buy cigarettes, two king-sized reese's cup packets and two mountain due soda bottles (20 oz). She was trying to swipe a card but it wasn't going through. She started blaming the clerk and he asked what type of card it was, she said "It's an EBT card, you don't take EBT cards?" The clerk said that they "certainly do." After 5 minutes of trying to get the card to work, she said "Just void the rest and give me the cigarettes." So the clerk voided the bag full of crap and scanned the cigarettes. Then she paid with the EBT card and it went through.
I thought you couldn't buy cigarettes with an EBT card? I just looked it up and everywhere say you can't do it, yet clearly she did. I also found a story about a NH clerk who was fired for refusing to process an EBT card for cigarettes. Does anyone know the real answer to this?
EBT cards can be used if they also contain a cash component - some states load both a person's cash component and food allowance on the same card.
That makes sense, I thought there might be a "cash component" to the cards for discretionary spending. I guess she used hers up and could only afford one item. I don't mind helping people with food, but I don't think they should be able to use any public funds to buy things like cigarettes.
TANF recipients get some cash, which can be loaded onto the same EBT cars as food stamps. So an EBT card has two components, food and cash, withh no spending restrictions on the cash component.
Non-TANF food stamp recipients always have a cash balance of zero.
True story: A woman in front of me today was trying to buy cigarettes, two king-sized reese's cup packets and two mountain due soda bottles (20 oz). She was trying to swipe a card but it wasn't going through. She started blaming the clerk and he asked what type of card it was, she said "It's an EBT card, you don't take EBT cards?" The clerk said that they "certainly do." After 5 minutes of trying to get the card to work, she said "Just void the rest and give me the cigarettes." So the clerk voided the bag full of crap and scanned the cigarettes. Then she paid with the EBT card and it went through.
I thought you couldn't buy cigarettes with an EBT card? I just looked it up and everywhere say you can't do it, yet clearly she did. I also found a story about a NH clerk who was fired for refusing to process an EBT card for cigarettes. Does anyone know the real answer to this?
Good to know we are contributing to her cancer sticks.
True story: A woman in front of me today was trying to buy cigarettes, two king-sized reese's cup packets and two mountain due soda bottles (20 oz). She was trying to swipe a card but it wasn't going through. She started blaming the clerk and he asked what type of card it was, she said "It's an EBT card, you don't take EBT cards?" The clerk said that they "certainly do." After 5 minutes of trying to get the card to work, she said "Just void the rest and give me the cigarettes." So the clerk voided the bag full of crap and scanned the cigarettes. Then she paid with the EBT card and it went through.
I thought you couldn't buy cigarettes with an EBT card? I just looked it up and everywhere say you can't do it, yet clearly she did. I also found a story about a NH clerk who was fired for refusing to process an EBT card for cigarettes. Does anyone know the real answer to this?
Reese's $1.25, Mountain Dew $1.35, and cig $8.50
Paying for her diabetes and upper respiratory problems via ObamaCare....priceless!
And people can't understand why I say I have transitioned to being a pro-nanny-state voter.
True story: A woman in front of me today was trying to buy cigarettes, two king-sized reese's cup packets and two mountain due soda bottles (20 oz). She was trying to swipe a card but it wasn't going through. She started blaming the clerk and he asked what type of card it was, she said "It's an EBT card, you don't take EBT cards?" The clerk said that they "certainly do." After 5 minutes of trying to get the card to work, she said "Just void the rest and give me the cigarettes." So the clerk voided the bag full of crap and scanned the cigarettes. Then she paid with the EBT card and it went through.
I thought you couldn't buy cigarettes with an EBT card? I just looked it up and everywhere say you can't do it, yet clearly she did. I also found a story about a NH clerk who was fired for refusing to process an EBT card for cigarettes. Does anyone know the real answer to this?
But why wouldn't the card work in the first place? Why would only scanning the cigarettes go through? Makes no sense to me. I think it's a flaw in that system since you can't buy cigs with that.
But why wouldn't the card work in the first place? Why would only scanning the cigarettes go through? Makes no sense to me. I think it's a flaw in that system since you can't buy cigs with that.
My guess is she didn't have enough money to buy the total, so when they took the other things off she had enough left.
My guess is she didn't have enough money to buy the total, so when they took the other things off she had enough left.
But the system shouldn't have taken the cigs or the cashier should not have allowed it. Somehow, the system was flawed.
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