Food Stamp Program

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The Food Stamp Program is a program that provides food to low income people living in the United States. Benefits are distributed by the individual states but the program is administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Related Topics:
United States - U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Most food stamp benefits are now distributed using Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards but for most of its history the program has used paper vouchers of some kind. Recent stamps look somewhat like Monopoly money and are enclosed in a book. They have been used illegally as a form of currency among the poor in informal barter and organized fraud.

Related Topics:
Electronic Benefit Transfer - Monopoly money

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