<p>“…illusion of people taking their food money out of ATMs to go party, which you simply cannot do”</p>
<p>It depends on how the program is set up by each state:</p>
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<p>"The station used public records requests to reveal that in the span of one year, people using state-issued welfare debit cards withdrew about $2 million from ATMs at Washington casinos. Furthermore, it determined that DSHS issued replacement cards, with no questions asked, to people who claimed to have lost theirs. Each month last year, the department handed out an average of 27,000 replacement cards. Some 20,000 people had cards replaced three times or more, and nearly 100 had their cards replaced at least 20 times.</p>
<p>The station also documented cards being sold on the street and on the website Craigslist."</p>
<p>If there are loopholes in the food stamps for college students program that can lead to purchases of booze and junk food, then there is clearly a problem, and the program is loaded with waste. If this money is being used for fueling the brains of the future of our country (only food items allowed, ID checks required, etc.), then it is money invested in our future.</p>