food voucher

Prepaid eating credit

A food voucher is a certificate or ticket exchangeable for food, typically issued by governments, employers, or aid organizations.

Food vouchers may be distributed as emergency relief, employee benefits, or social assistance: Refugees received food vouchers redeemable at local markets.

The term often overlaps with food stamps, though vouchers tend to be more targeted or temporary.

Related

cafeteria · school lunch · free lunch · subsidy · government aid · redemption · cashier · benefit · welfare · social safety net · assistance · grocery · ration · allowance · charity · lunch · paper · exchange

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Opposites
form of payment/currency

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Ready spending funds

hard currency · money · currency · legal tender · disposable income

assistance vs. self-sufficiency

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Pay from work

wages · salary · financial independence · self-sufficiency · employment income

access to food

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Extreme nutritional deprivation

famine · food insecurity · hunger · deprivation · malnutrition

Family

food, voucher, foods, foodstuff, foodstuffs, vouch, vouchers, vouched, vouching

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G