MilkyPastel wrote on February 24, 2021 at 6:10 PM (edited on February 24, 2021 at 6:11 PM)

My old church used to give these kinds of gift cards to community members in need around the holidays (but with like $200, not $10 on them) so people could afford holiday meals, but they didnt want addicts buying alcohol instead of feeding their kids. Seemed like a great gesture at the time, but now that I'm old enough to be aware of people who sell food stamps for drugs I see how this could have easily been used for the same thing.

spc50 OP wrote on February 24, 2021 at 6:14 PM

Thanks for showing real world use case for these.

Food stamp thing was replaced by food cards in many States. Same fraud still goes on - just walk down to store with you. Hand you card. You shop. Leave store, give me back my card and my cash.

Worse is corner stores aka bodegas where such handouts are outright misappropriated by filthy owners who cash exchange food funds at 50% or less of value. Many of these stores are owned by foreign nationals.