Proof, some military families are on food stamps by the military

There are way too many people in this country that claim the stories of military families on food stamps is nothing more than "far left fantasy" much as they deny there are homeless veterans. Well, as with the homeless veterans, and the government proving there are homeless veterans, here is one more time when the government once again proves the reality of what some of our troops are going through. They had to change to new cards so that the other people in line wouldn't know who had food stamps instead of ATM cards or credit cards. There are only two kinds of shoppers who can go onto bases. Disabled veterans with 100% disability ratings and military families. This proves they don't make enough money to survive without getting food stamps and it's so wrong there are no words. Maybe the next time you see one of those blogs denying the reality of how we really do "support the troops" in this country, you can tell them they need to read Army Times once in a while to know some facts.

Using food stamps now easier at commissaries

By Karen Jowers - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Aug 29, 2008 16:39:58 EDT

It’s now easier for commissary customers redeeming food stamps to use their Electronic Benefit Transfer cards — and they have more privacy, too, as all checkout lines now accept these cards just as they do any credit or debit card.

The new checkout system is dubbed the Commissary Advanced Resale Transaction System, or CARTS.

Previously, commissaries had to use stand-alone, state-provided systems to process the benefit cards, and the terminals were installed on only one or two registers. Food stamp benefits are not received overseas.

“On occasion, customers with food-stamp EBT cards found themselves in the wrong line, and we’d have to direct them to use one of the registers with an EBT terminal,” said Gary Hensley, director of the commissary at Fort Benning, Ga., in an announcement from the Defense Commissary Agency. The Fort Benning commissary rang up more than $1.1 million in purchases in the food stamp redemption program in 2007, tops among commissaries.
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