The Food Stamp program, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) comes with many rules and regulations for recipients. One of those rules and regulations is that you cannot trade your food stamp benefits (SNAP benefits). Even though the practice is strictly prohibited, it has been going on for years. Back in the day, people used to trade their paper food stamps for cash. With the invention of EBT Cards, came the invention of allowing non recipeints to utilize the card in exchange for cash. It would seem that people cannot be stopped from selling their food stamps. The problem has come to the attention of the Illinois Department of Human services. Apparrently, recipients have been using social media to hawk the use of Illionios LINK Cards (the state's EBT Card). There are people who Tweet their intent to sell their food stamps, and others who place their intent on their Facebook page. Currently, the Illinois Department of Human Services is working with federal agencies to...

Apparently, food stamps can be used to purchase Starbucks in Oregon... and some people are really angry about it. All of the noise started when Jackie Fowler used her Oregon Trail Card (EBT card) to purchase a frappuccino and a slice of pumpkin bread at a Starbucks inside a Safeway. Fowler made the purchase to show her local Fox news station that it is possible to use SNAP benefits at Starbucks. She feels that it is a misuse of the state's food assistance funds. Fowler stated that Starbucks sells luxury items, and if a food stamp recipient wants a luxury item, they should purchase it with their own money. According to the SNAP benefits guidelines, people cannot purchase foods that can be eaten in the store or hot foods. Nowhere in the SNAP guidelines does it say that a recipient cannot purchase "luxury" items. In fact, recipients can purchase soft drinks, cookies, ice cream and bakery items. A Starbucks frappucino is a cold drink, and a slice of pumpkin bread is a ba...