Bankers Or Food Stamp Recipients - Who Is Punished More?

"The Jindal administration vowed late Wednesday to strip food stamp benefits from recipients who misled retailers about their spending limits during a technical malfunction.

Recipients who walked away with groceries that exceeded their food stamp balances face losing their benefits for a year, two years or permanently depending on how many prior infractions they have. Exactly how many stand to be punished is unclear. More than 12,000 transactions generated insufficient funds notices once the electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, system came back online Oct. 12 and retailers could process stored transactions.




However, retailers might have repeatedly run transactions through in an attempt to get payment on groceries sold when the system was down."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.