EBT card
Government food assistance
An EBT card is an Electronic Benefits Transfer card—a government-issued debit card used to distribute food stamps and other public assistance.
Recipients use it at grocery stores and ATMs to access their benefits: She swiped her EBT card at the checkout.
The card replaced paper food stamps in the 1990s.
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
- SNAPFederal nutrition assistance
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- public assistanceGovernment help for poor
- government aidState-funded public support
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- institutional foodcafeteria, school lunch, hospital food, mess hall, chow hall
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Ready spending funds
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Pay from work
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