Iowa FIP Won’t Track Illegal Food Stamp Card Usage Unless Federal Government Forces Them

So, in Iowa, the only thing keeping welfare recipients from using their food stamp cards on things they are prohibited from using the card for is an honor system. The Iowa Family Investment Program knows that their food stamp cards are being misused, but the Iowa liberals will do nothing to stop the abuse.

A federal law, passed in 2012, requires states taking federal dollars to take actions to prevent EBT Food Stamp cards from being used at “liquor stores, casinos and “any retail establishment which provides adult-oriented entertainment in which performers disrobe”, but corrupt Iowa liberals are ignoring the law, just as liberals always ignore the laws they don’t like.

Iowa has a new strategy for preventing welfare recipients from using their electronic benefit transfer cards in liquor stores, casinos and strip clubs — sending a letter to the welfare recipients telling them not to do it.

The strategy actually is an improvement over what the state had been doing, which was nothing.

Until February,