Foodstamp Program Shutdown Imminent?

Zero Hedge ^ | October 15, 2013

[Graybeard58]

Riots, people dying, exactly what obama wants.

[Dead Corpse]

Good.

[Sooth2222]

So, where do people who can't figure out how to feed themselves tend to live? (Could it correspond to the places where people who vote for Democrats tend to live?)

[fatima]

That’s what I’m thinking on a reread.So the reports are not going in for Nov.effective now.Even if they come up with the money it will take awhile to get the system back up.Better stock up now folks.

[txhurl]

Which film is that and is that Jesse Eisenberg?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“Hey, let’s put water on it.....”

But...Brawndo has electrolytes.

[No.6]

SNAP is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or food stamps.

EBT is Electronic Bank Transfer and could be a bank card, debit card, or welfare card. EBT is how food stamps stopped being stamps.

The problem with EBT welfare, apart from normalizing or desensitizing it, is that money just drops into the account regularly without people having to maintain an address, landline, or other aspect of a stable normal life. It also makes fraud easier.

[willywill]

you know, along the lines of the reason for the popularity of duck dynasty, because people are starved for a show that doesn’t push, anti Americanism, homosexuality and the agenda of the non Christians in hollywood ....
I bet if someone opened up a store that had a huge sign that says they do not accept, ebt, I bet that people would flock to that store, and drive out of their way to do business there.

[tumblindice]

Shutdown of the foodstamp program will affect me and mine as much as the federal govt. shutdown has: Not At All.
Who cares? Let it burn.

[sheana]

Actually that is....Electronic Benefit Transfer.

[Uncle Chip]

The problem with EBT welfare, apart from normalizing or desensitizing it, is that money just drops into the account regularly without people having to maintain an address, landline, or other aspect of a stable normal life. It also makes fraud easier.

Amazing how that works.

A person can have HUD subsidized residence as well as a half dozen homeless personnas and EBT cards for all of them.

[VanDeKoik]

The left always like to point out all of the Red States where people get so much welfare.

Never stopping to think of all of those states where there exists heavily blue cites where almost all of it goes.

[Chuckster]

I wish this were a parallel universe.

It is.

[cornfedcowboy]

Why is it that whenever something is declared immenent, it never happens.

[TurboZamboni]

“EBT card...it’s everywhere you want to be”

[CodeToad]

Cities. Easy enough to understand.

[steve86]

EBT is Electronic Benefits Transfer.

money just drops into the account regularly without people having to maintain an address, landline, or other aspect of a stable normal life.

My state has six-month recertifications. If the individual doesn't show up and complete the form and/or interview, benefits stop the first of the next month.

[knarf]

THAT was something I wanted to know ... how long those phones were good for.

ALSO ... are they free LD, too ?

[ßuddaßudd]

Each card should give out 5% less each month until empty,, imho

[Uncle Chip]

BTW when the program finally shuts down send them to Michelle’s garden.

Better they get wonderful veggies than they go to the squirrels.

Well maybe —