re: Our kid just received an unsolicited EBT card on the mail.

Like others have said, it depends on where your kids go to school. We by no means requested it, signed up for it, or need it, but as much as we are taxed, I'll take it.

We used ours at Costco and stocked up on briskets, steaks, and other meats.

No shame at checkout.

I may have missed this in the thread already and for that I apologize if so, but this came from the feds or governor?

I LOVE eating ribeyes and skrimps with my kids card

The feds. This has nothing to do with Louisiana other than the fact that the feds hand down the actual distribution to each state for obvious reasons. The department of child and family services (SNAP office) deal with getting the cards out and going through the data as to who gets one. The schools gave that data over, hence why schools who are on provisional programs where all kids are “free status” due to the overall population average are having high income families receive cards.

The reason so many high income people got cards is pure coincidence due to Ida. Ida damaged areas allowed swaths of the population to qualify for DSNAP (disaster food stamps) even if they make plenty of money. The more kids whose families are in SNAP, the higher the poverty percentage becomes for the schools they attend. Because of this, many Louisiana schools took advantage of their increased percentage and opted into provisional programs they don’t typically qualify for. Reason? It eliminates TONS of administrative burden (no more income applications families have to complete, no more dealing with hassling people to pay their lunch bills, etc). Once you’re accepted on the provisional program, you get it for 4 years.

So unless we have another disaster storm, many of these higher income area schools will go back to traditional free/reduced/full paid program in 4 years.

In the meantime, you get the same benefits the actual poor schools and poor students get purely because we had a major storm.

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We received two cards in the mail, one for each child. I went online to activate the card to see if there is an amount on it and each card will not verify in the system. Called the number and the same results occur. No Prime filets for us!

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If you tried to verify using your kids SS number try it again using the last 4 of her student ID

Because the enrollment was automatic they used their student ID’s not socials

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Helping parents feed kids is the devil. We are lost.

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Show me where it is the government's job to take money from one group of people and feed other's kids with that money. Kids whose parents most likely are able-bodied and can work but choose not to.

I will help you out, it is not. Hell, even the apostles realized that was a flawed system shortly after Jesus' death. Hence "For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either." 2Thessalonians 3:10.

Pretty sure this isn't D-SNAP, it's still P-EBT.

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Like others have said, it depends on where your kids go to school. We by no means requested it, signed up for it, or need it, but as much as we are taxed, I'll take it.

We used ours at Costco and stocked up on briskets, steaks, and other meats.

No shame at checkout.

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This but ALSO there's a provision in the legislation of the program that UNUSED funds at the end of fiscal year of the program go to the bonuses of the ADMINSTRATORS of the program.
So, if you get the cards = USE THEM. Stock up for yourself or GIVE the groceries to a charity of your direct choosing that WILL do some good. Don't aide in lining the pocket of these admins that built this BS into their programs. It's just another grift.

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homeschool

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That is so weird

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homeschool

That is so weird

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Lots of things are weird