(NY Post) Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit
Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas,
The Post found.
The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and
plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner
of the city.
The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion
welfare program for impoverished Americans.
"Everybody does it," said a worker at an Associated Supermarket in Prospect
Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. "They pay for it any way they can. A lot of people
pay with EBT."
Customers pay cash for the barrels, usually about $40, and typically ship them
filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of rice, beans, pasta, canned milk and
sausages.
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