How Does A Food Stamp Card Work. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP helps Pennsylvanians buy food. Since youre using a government-funded card to buy food your purchase is tax-exempt.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP helps Pennsylvanians buy food. Its a plastic card thats used like a debit card to pay for items. SNAP offers nutrition assistance to buy healthy food.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP is the federal program that replaced food stamps.
And instead of issuing paper food stamp coupons SNAP recipients get an electronic benefit transfer EBT card to use in participating stores. It looks and works like a debit card. Most households must spend some of their own cash along with their SNAP benefits to buy the food they need. Since youre using a government-funded card to buy food your purchase is tax-exempt.