“I had renters who used EBT to buy stuff they’d sell at cents on the dollar so they could buy beer, cigarettes and drugs.”
Yes, you’re correct. That’s an example of getting “around the rules”
In my work as a police officer, I discovered that there is a MASSIVE black market for (at the time) food stamps. They were used to buy all sorts of things, mostly drugs and bling for ghetto-mobiles.
But studies like this would say that they were being “used for food.”