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You can’t buy laundry detergent with SNAP benefits, since it isn’t food.
by trollbridge 9d ago
You can’t buy laundry detergent with SNAP benefits, since it isn’t food.
- SoftTalker 9d agoHm, maybe that loophole was closed recently? Definitely used to be a thing, people with benefits would buy something nonperishable and marketable. Tide detergent was the example. That could then be sold for cash, or traded for cigarettes or booze or something that the benefits program would not allow, and resold to people who needed laundry detergent. Everyone taking a cut along the way of course, but hey it's free to start with so who cares? I went ahead and did a web search on this, and found that I misremembered it. It wasn't that the laundry detergent was initially purchased with a public benefit program, it was outright stolen. https://reason.org/commentary/sound-money-tide-as-gold-standard/ https://reason.org/commentary/sound-money-tide-as-gold-stand... Still, variations on the scam with benefit programs are still run.
- trollbridge 8d agoI’m really wondering how you confused “things that thieves steal” with “things people buy with food stamps”. Food is rarely shoplifted in America.