Certain restaurants can be authorized to accept food stamp benefits from qualified homeless, elderly, or disabled people in exchange for low-cost meals, and certain organizations can collect food stamp benefits for providing meals and food to old or disabled eligible persons. However, food stamp benefits cannot be exchanged for cash in any case.
Another restriction imposed on food stamps is for online purchases made on the Internet. As of now, this facility of using Electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards for food stamps on the internet is not made available due to problems and issues of security. However, some states allow access to EBT card accounts online to see the total benefits account of the household.
The food stamp benefits added to your account for the month, if unused would be carried over to the next month, but there are restrictions on this too. If these benefits continue to remain unutilized beyond 9 to 12 months (depending upon the state), then the food stamps office may initiate the process of removing those benefits from your account. So these benefits can be accumulated indefinitely, and must be utilized within a certain time frame of 9 to 12 months.
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