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To: gronieel2 who wrote (885984)9/8/2015 12:48:29 PM
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>> Food stamps are now part of the EBT card which the po recipient uses like a credit card. So if he wants to sell his food stamps what does he do? Sell the entire EBT card?

Seriously?

You and CJ are so naive it isn't even funny.

There are convenience stores in every small town and major city into which you can walk with an EBT card and have however much you want converted to cash at 50c on the dollar.

Do you REALLY think that people who deal in theft and drugs day in, day out, can't figure this out?

Falls said they learned owners of numerous convenience stores in the Birmingham area have been buying EBT cards from those who have been issued the cards for roughly 50 cents on the dollar. In other words, if someone had $150 on their EBT card, the store owners and managers would buy those cards for $75.

The government reloads money onto those EBT cards monthly. Once the store owners and managers bought the cards, they would then go to a wholesaler where they would buy goods and bring them back to their stores to sell at a further inflated price. In return, the person who sold their EBT card now had cash to buy items not allowed to be purchased under the government system, such as alcohol, tobacco and drugs.

"They're selling their cards to get those things,'' Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Raulston said.

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