USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
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Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#2Citizens offering kindness to people in need will not be tolerated.
Christian America's support of these guys has to be a pretty big disappointment to their god...
Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#3Using poor, hungry people as pawns in their political games is evil. Full stop.
Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#4Citizens offering kindness to people in need will not be tolerated. Christian America's support of these guys has to be a pretty big disappointment to their god...
Nah, it's right up Supply Side Jesus' alley.
https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-...
Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#5Using poor, hungry people as pawns in their political games is evil. Full stop.
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Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#6Read the article and then you'll put away your pitchforks. A basic rule is snap recipients can't be treated differently than non-program members which seems reasonable.
"At issue is SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which bars stores from either discriminating against people in the program or offering them favorable treatment. "
Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#7Read the article and then you'll put away your pitchforks. A basic rule is snap recipients can't be treated differently than non-program members which seems reasonable. "At issue is SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which bars stores from either discriminating against people in the program or offering them favorable treatment. "
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Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#8Relevant links:
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt/retailer/retailer-notice/r...
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fr-022124
> Coupons shall be accepted for eligible foods at the same prices and on the same terms and conditions applicable to cash purchases of the same foods at the same store except that tax shall not be charged on eligible foods purchased with coupons.
Obviously lawyers are going to be involved in interpreting these rules. But as a lay person, I wonder: a store cannot charge a different price to someone who is buying food with a SNAP coupon. But for someone who has SNAP benefits, but isn't using a SNAP coupon to buy food (you know... because the government isn't funding the program), do these rules still apply?
Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#9The USDA notice included the fact that retailers can get a waiver from Equal Treatment provisions, but (of course) the author failed to mention that tidbit.
Re: USDA Threatens Stores Giving Discounts to People on Food Stamps
#10Read the article and then you'll put away your pitchforks. A basic rule is snap recipients can't be treated differently than non-program members which seems reasonable. "At issue is SNAP’s “Equal Treatment Rule,” which bars stores from either discriminating against people in the program or offering them favorable treatment. "
Forbidding charging SNAP recipients more is reasonable. Why is it reasonable to forbid charging SNAP recipients less?