its impossible to take cash from a SNAP account in Target etc...
you made an assumption without asking for facts...
EBT cards can have at least 3 accounts - Medicaid, SNAP and public assistance
If they were making non food purchases it was with public assistance.
There are a few different ways people end up with large amounts of PA or SNAP on a card
It can be after an apartment / house fire.
or back dated benefits because of errors in social services, or an extended hospital stay or shelter stay or getting out of a shelter
My good brother, this was several years ago during my teens. Im 100% positive that this idiot and several other idiots were taking money out of their EBT card. I kid you not. Maybe its not the same now but it was in about 2007-2008.
Im not saying people shouldn't receive aids from the government. Im saying people shouldn't abuse it because its so easy to get. Mind you, i know a guy that has about 6 EBT cards he got through his family. This dirtbag uses it to fund his grocery store.