States warn food stamp recipients to budget early benefit payments due to shutdown

MSN 'News' ^ | January 16, 2019 | Helena Evich

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Please budget for buying food wisely!" one flier read. "Additional benefits cannot be added for future months until the shutdown is resolved."

[dinodino]

Haha. What will really happen: food stamp recipients will spend all funds on McDonald’s and Hostess Twinkies immediately upon receipt, and then will claim starvation looms and demand more “benefits.”

[mewzilla]

States lie like a rug. Per the SecAg, SNAP has been funded through February. If states screw with that money to scare people, that’s on the states.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This is getting GOOD! MAGA!

Yes, of course I have compassion for Elderly, Disabled and Vets who NEED our help. Hate to see them harmed, but should this ‘crisis’ continue, we’ll see a clear separation of the sheep from the goats. ;)

(Matthew 25:31-46)

[Qiviut]

They might want to buy some rice & beans on their next grocery trip instead of ribs & seafood (King crab legs) and yes, I’ve seen them at the register with that & bags of high-end dog food (no ‘Old Roy’ for their pitbulls). Whatever they couldn’t buy with ‘food stamps’, they bought with wads of cash they pulled out of their pockets.

[Ancient Man]

Scratch-off and blunt sales will plummet.

[Tennessee Nana]

Those wads of cash were from the EBT cards...welfare...

They can spend that money on anything they want to...and they do...

[Leep]

Or, should be anyhow.

[Redleg Duke]

Drug dealers hardest hit!

[Delta 21]

Why do furloughed federal workers get to float loans

and shop for free food,

BUT

the poor and indigent get to tighten their belts

and budget for tough times?

[morphing libertarian]

Banks business decision

[tbw2]

That is why food banks see spikes in demand in the last week of the month anyway.

[BobinIL]

I should have said something to the nice minority lady in front of me at the 7-11 buying 2 jumbo bags of potato chips and a big gulp with her WIC card.

[Celerity]

This sounds like more of an anti-trump move than anything else.

You can’t have people just wake up one day and start budgeting their food.

They’ll start a riot, thats what they’ll do

[oldasrocks]

How are they going to budget when steaks cost so much. The blame is on the capitalists who charge more than a Dollar a pound of T bones.

[trebb]

Too late - they already used those “benefits” for booze, drugs and sexual gratification....

[Farmer Dean]

What,no lobster for their pit bulls next month?

[Patriotic1]

Right - and people are getting their Feb benefits in January, early. Some have already gotten them. I’m in a FB group that assists people down on their luck, and this is a big topic.

[Feckless]

Notice how the Feral Gubbmint “Shutdown” affects those who Vote for a living much more than those who Work for a living?

[American in Israel]

Food stamps and budgets do not go together.