Heroin dealer allegedly posts bail with his ebt card

[High_Gravity]

Allowing it be used at an ATM is just madness, I bet people are abusing that like hell up in MA.

Somewhere on the VA website I read that misusing the EBT card --- for anything other than what it was intended for --- is not only a state crime but Federal too. Are the Federal rules so lax that they'd allow this? I wonder how many other states allow it to be used to get cash?

Once you allow me to withdraw cash you have no clue what I'm using it on, unless I have provide receipts to my worker every month, god what choas.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Next thing you know, he will want a taxpayer funded drug treatment program, job training, unemployment, and housing and education subsidies.............

cause he's really special

 

[buckeye45_73]

He was probably on furlough so he could rape of kill someone, MA is such a shithole.

 

[edthecynic]

Using the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Card - Health and Human Services - Mass.Gov

They CAN use it to withdraw from an ATM in Mass. Well that's just crazy. Here in VA, you can't use the card anywhere but a grocer or similar retailer to buy food, and you can't use it to get cash back.

You cannot access cash from a grocery store or ATM
with your Virginia EBT card.

http://www.dss.virginia.gov/files/division/bp/ebt/cardholder_info/faq/brochure_english.pdf

Again we have a half truth. You can use an EBT cash assistance card to get cash from an ATM but you can't use an EBT food stamp (SNAP) card to get cash from an ATM. And you can't use the cash from your EBT for bail!!!! Like anything from any Right-wing source, the OP is a lie. They knew they were lying which is why they used the disclaimer "ALLEGEDLY"

From the pdf in your link:

What You Can’t Buy with Cash Benefits
on Your EBT Card
Effective July 27, 2012, it is illegal for you to use cash
benefits to pay for the following purchases or
services with your Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)
card:
 Alcoholic beverages
 Court-ordered fees, fines, bail or bail bonds
 Firearms and ammunition
 Gambling
 Jewelry
 Lottery tickets
 Pornographic material or performances
 Tattoos or body piercings
 Tobacco products, or
 Vacation services

 

[theDoctorisIn]

EBT cards are used for multiple sorts of assistance.

"Food Stamps" loaded on an EBT card can only be used for food. Other forms of assistance (that used be given in a check) are now also loaded onto EBT cards, which can be used at ATMs (for example, UI).

 

[Dubya]

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (the debit card equivalent of food stamps) have been at the center of a heated national discussion on welfare reform. There have been numerous reports of EBT card abuse and some states have started cracking down on card holders. Of course, whenever someone talks about welfare reform, one side of the political spectrum claims it’s “racially motivated.”

However, even those claims might be put aside for a moment in Massachusetts after a heroin allegedly posted bail with his EBT card.

“A convicted drug dealer…is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing…for a crackdown,” John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald write.

Kimball Clark, 45, was arrested on Friday on drug related charges — again. Yeah, he’s a multiple offender.





Heroin Dealer Allegedly Posts Bail With EBT Card | Video | TheBlaze.com






people doing or selling drugs should not get a dime of taxpayer's money..

I've read your article and dispute what it says and the intent to mislead.

Through EBT, a recipient uses his/her EBT card to make purchases at participating retailers. Food stamp benefits can only be used to purchase food items authorized by the USDA's SNAP program. Cash benefits may be used to purchase any item at a participating retailer, as well as to obtain cash-back or make a cash withdrawal from a participating ATM.

Source: Electronic Benefit Transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So according to sources that could easily be discovered by anyone doing the minimum of research, these cards have two types of benefits namely food stamp benefits and cash benefits.

Why did the article lie about the food stamps?

Why after using a right-wing source didn't you have enough sense to check the facts before making a thread?

You could have made an issue about the cash benefits being used that way, but there really isn't a system to use the card without the ability to get cash from an ATM, because there aren't enough participating retailers or methods of using cash besides an ATM. You could make an issue of why this person gets cash benefits.

My question is simply, why the deception?

 

[tjvh]

This sort of thing is nothing more than exactly what the voters wanted when they reelected Obama, I don't care about EBT abuse in the least because ultimately the house of cards is going to come crashing down.

 

[Dubya]

The whole point of the EBT card is to buy food though, if I can use it to withdraw hard cash I can use that money for anything I want, thats not right.

Yeah, I know. Here they can only purchase food (and stuff to grow food). The card makes sense, and is most likely more efficient, easier to keep track of and so on ... until you allow it to be used as an ATM card.

Allowing it be used at an ATM is just madness, I bet people are abusing that like hell up in MA.

The alternative to cash benefits from a card are giving the person a check to cash. Why is that any different than using a card? Only some type of welfare would give cash benefits. Food stamps can only be used for food.

 

[Dubya]

This sort of thing is nothing more than exactly what the voters wanted when they reelected Obama, I don't care about EBT abuse in the least because ultimately the house of cards is going to come crashing down.

These cards have been around since the late 1990s.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

A few years ago, I was on unemployment for a few months. I got my weekly benefits on an "EBT" card that worked as a regular Debit/Credit card. I could use it at any ATM, or as a CC - anywhere that accepted MasterCard.

 

[Noomi]

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (the debit card equivalent of food stamps) have been at the center of a heated national discussion on welfare reform. There have been numerous reports of EBT card abuse and some states have started cracking down on card holders. Of course, whenever someone talks about welfare reform, one side of the political spectrum claims it’s “racially motivated.”

However, even those claims might be put aside for a moment in Massachusetts after a heroin allegedly posted bail with his EBT card.

“A convicted drug dealer…is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing…for a crackdown,” John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald write.

Kimball Clark, 45, was arrested on Friday on drug related charges — again. Yeah, he’s a multiple offender.





Heroin Dealer Allegedly Posts Bail With EBT Card | Video | TheBlaze.com






people doing or selling drugs should not get a dime of taxpayer's money..

You shouldn't be allowed to use the cards for that. Surely there are rules as to how one can use them?

 

[Dubya]

Using the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Card - Health and Human Services - Mass.Gov

They CAN use it to withdraw from an ATM in Mass. Well that's just crazy. Here in VA, you can't use the card anywhere but a grocer or similar retailer to buy food, and you can't use it to get cash back.

You cannot access cash from a grocery store or ATM
with your Virginia EBT card.

http://www.dss.virginia.gov/files/division/bp/ebt/cardholder_info/faq/brochure_english.pdf

That only says you can't get cash from a grocery store and it doesn't say you can't get cash if you have cash benefits with a Virginia EBT card at an ATM.

The cards were used to cut the costs of printing food stamps and checks, plus the expense of mailing them. I can imagine there were also concerns about food stamps be counterfeited.

Is the bitch about the cards or about welfare in general?

 

[tjvh]

This sort of thing is nothing more than exactly what the voters wanted when they reelected Obama, I don't care about EBT abuse in the least because ultimately the house of cards is going to come crashing down.

These cards have been around since the late 1990s.

But not in the record numbers they are in 2013.

 

[tjvh]

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (the debit card equivalent of food stamps) have been at the center of a heated national discussion on welfare reform. There have been numerous reports of EBT card abuse and some states have started cracking down on card holders. Of course, whenever someone talks about welfare reform, one side of the political spectrum claims it’s “racially motivated.”

However, even those claims might be put aside for a moment in Massachusetts after a heroin allegedly posted bail with his EBT card.

“A convicted drug dealer…is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing…for a crackdown,” John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald write.

Kimball Clark, 45, was arrested on Friday on drug related charges — again. Yeah, he’s a multiple offender.





Heroin Dealer Allegedly Posts Bail With EBT Card | Video | TheBlaze.com






people doing or selling drugs should not get a dime of taxpayer's money..

You shouldn't be allowed to use the cards for that. Surely there are rules as to how one can use them?

Rules like the work requirement Bill Clinton set up, which Obama removed... Those kinds of rules.

 

[Dubya]

This sort of thing is nothing more than exactly what the voters wanted when they reelected Obama, I don't care about EBT abuse in the least because ultimately the house of cards is going to come crashing down.

These cards have been around since the late 1990s.

But not in the record numbers they are in 2013.

If you don't want people on food stamps and unemployed using EBT cards, don't vote Republican and vote them all out of office.

 

[Dubya]

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (the debit card equivalent of food stamps) have been at the center of a heated national discussion on welfare reform. There have been numerous reports of EBT card abuse and some states have started cracking down on card holders. Of course, whenever someone talks about welfare reform, one side of the political spectrum claims it’s “racially motivated.”

However, even those claims might be put aside for a moment in Massachusetts after a heroin allegedly posted bail with his EBT card.

“A convicted drug dealer…is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing…for a crackdown,” John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald write.

Kimball Clark, 45, was arrested on Friday on drug related charges — again. Yeah, he’s a multiple offender.





Heroin Dealer Allegedly Posts Bail With EBT Card | Video | TheBlaze.com






people doing or selling drugs should not get a dime of taxpayer's money..

You shouldn't be allowed to use the cards for that. Surely there are rules as to how one can use them?

How do you know that guy didn't have unemployment benefits on his card?

 

[edthecynic]

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (the debit card equivalent of food stamps) have been at the center of a heated national discussion on welfare reform. There have been numerous reports of EBT card abuse and some states have started cracking down on card holders. Of course, whenever someone talks about welfare reform, one side of the political spectrum claims it’s “racially motivated.”

However, even those claims might be put aside for a moment in Massachusetts after a heroin allegedly posted bail with his EBT card.

“A convicted drug dealer…is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing…for a crackdown,” John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald write.

Kimball Clark, 45, was arrested on Friday on drug related charges — again. Yeah, he’s a multiple offender.





Heroin Dealer Allegedly Posts Bail With EBT Card | Video | TheBlaze.com






people doing or selling drugs should not get a dime of taxpayer's money..

You shouldn't be allowed to use the cards for that. Surely there are rules as to how one can use them?

Rules like the work requirement Bill Clinton set up, which Obama removed... Those kinds of rules.

Yet another GOP scripted lie parroted by the Misinformation Voter.

 

[Care4all]

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (the debit card equivalent of food stamps) have been at the center of a heated national discussion on welfare reform. There have been numerous reports of EBT card abuse and some states have started cracking down on card holders. Of course, whenever someone talks about welfare reform, one side of the political spectrum claims it’s “racially motivated.”

However, even those claims might be put aside for a moment in Massachusetts after a heroin allegedly posted bail with his EBT card.

“A convicted drug dealer…is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing…for a crackdown,” John Zaremba and Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald write.

Kimball Clark, 45, was arrested on Friday on drug related charges — again. Yeah, he’s a multiple offender.





Heroin Dealer Allegedly Posts Bail With EBT Card | Video | TheBlaze.com






people doing or selling drugs should not get a dime of taxpayer's money..

ummmmm, you do realize that this is an old alleged incident that happened a year ago, in april 2012?

why are the right wing rags bringing this up from a year ago? be interesting to see if any reporting since it was reported a year ago could shed light on whether it was even true.

http://bostonherald.com//news_opinion/local_coverage/2012/04/pols_welfare_abuse_runs_deep

 

[Oldguy]

It must have been an awfully low bail for a drug charge, wouldn't you think?

But, this is from Glenn Beck's "Blaze," so it can be safely ignored.

 

[FireFly]

He didn't want her to pawn his gold necklace.