No toiletries, diapers, etc only food. Pretty much ANY food item you find in the grocery store (or other stores). Supposedly not "prepared hot foods" but I've seen it go through also. From produce to canned soup to frozen meals to fix your own salad bar to chips and sodas, anything.
No toiletries, diapers, etc only food. Pretty much ANY food item you find in the grocery store (or other stores). Supposedly not "prepared hot foods" but I've seen it go through also. From produce to canned soup to frozen meals to fix your own salad bar to chips and sodas, anything.
Just saw a sign at the gas station/convenience store on almost everything that said : "EBT card approved"
No toiletries, diapers, etc only food. Pretty much ANY food item you find in the grocery store (or other stores). Supposedly not "prepared hot foods" but I've seen it go through also. From produce to canned soup to frozen meals to fix your own salad bar to chips and sodas, anything.
Actually, what Malibu says is not entirely true. An EBT card is an electric benefits card. In NH, if a person receives SNAP benefits (the new name for food stamps) and TANF benefits (also known as welfare money), they use their EBT to access the money that is in their TANF account. You can use that money for anything you want. Withdraw it as cash, pay your rent, buy diapers, buy drugs, whatever.
Also, according to my niece's boyfriend who worked in a convenience store, people just ask them to ring up forbidden items as a grocery item. Then the EBT works and the item is paid for by food stamps. Some stores would even ring up beer as grocery.
No toiletries, diapers, etc only food. Pretty much ANY food item you find in the grocery store (or other stores). Supposedly not "prepared hot foods" but I've seen it go through also. From produce to canned soup to frozen meals to fix your own salad bar to chips and sodas, anything.
The technical definition is food that is intended to be eaten at home. But each store defines it differently. The burrito used as an example that was in the freezer case is fine, but once it gets heated it is intended for immediate consumption. Some stores don't allow anything from the deli except lunchmeat, no salads etc. I see that now Papa Murphys advertises they take EBT, because thats eaten at home, but Pizza Hut can;t because it's for immediate consumption.
Just saw a sign at the gas station/convenience store on almost everything that said : "EBT card approved"
Top comment+bottom comment=the sad reality in NH...I know a kid at my school whose parents buy beer and cigarettes with EBT...and give them to him.
He brags about it because he can't really get caught and I've seen them buying. Unfortunately, students can't report other students for drugs/alcohol/cigarettes.
That's correct, sorry, the cash assistance part of EBT can be used anywhere, You can withdraw from at ATM at the strip club or casino (some states are discussing making that off limits) In our state it works like any debit card, you can buy gas, adult movies, anything. The cash is yours to use how you see fit. The food card part has more restrictions.
It's food stamps, you can basically buy anything food with it. Unfortunately, I see so many people buying candy and soda with it at convenience stores...sometimes for their kids...
I am a success story from a family that was on EBT (we had food stamps and I think some money to help for heat and electricity etc.) and I think the system needs to be reworked. My mother only used it for the necessities but with 3 growing kids and being a single working mother the money was never enough especially when she was out of work on short term disability for a few months. There were some tough times but my mom only used the money to buy our stuff for school and to get us good food so we didn't eat crap every day. She worked hard to get off of the assistance by working her way up as a teacher's assistant in our school.
I'm all for the system being revamped because back home in my neighborhood in TX you see it being abused all the time. The girls in my area are "trained" to get pregnant young so they can be on the program and can get whatever they want. So you see their kids running around in dirty clothes and broken shoes but then mom and boyfriend have iphones, new laptops, and an awesome car. It is sad to see a system that is meant to help people go to crab and back by the abusers of the program. My cousin and I are literately the only girls on our neighborhood who don't have babies and aren't on welfare and it has been that way since we were in high school.