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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1253381, member: 6986&quot;]Let&#039;s make sure we are all talking about the same thing.&nbsp; This discussion relates to USDA Food Coupons which most people refer to as Food Stamps.&nbsp; The paper Food Coupons were demonetized in 2009. They are of no monetary value to anyone on or off the SNAP program.&nbsp; (For those who are not familiar with the terminology, SNAP is the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, the new name for the old Food Stamp program.)</p><p><br /></p><p>All SNAP benefits are paid by Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card.&nbsp; All &quot;2011 food stamps&quot; only exist as credits on EBT cards.&nbsp; The woman in the newspaper article who was arrested for selling her &quot;food stamps&quot; was selling her EBT card.&nbsp; She was not selling paper USDA Food Coupons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Selling the EBT benefits is prohibited by Title VII, Chapter 51 of the United States Code which governs the SNAP Program.&nbsp; When the paper coupons were demonetized in 2009, the sections of Title VII, Chapter 51 which prohibited the possession, sale, transfer or other use of paper USDA Food Coupons were repealed.&nbsp; If you look within this Chapter today (specifically Section 2106) you will see that the only mention of the paper USDA Food Coupons is the fact that they are no longer an obligation of the US government and they are to no longer be issued.&nbsp; The prohibition against possession, sale, transfer or other use of the paper USDA Food Coupons that used to be in this Chapter are gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that having been said, NorthKorea is also correct.&nbsp; Ebay does have the right to prohibit whatever it wants from being sold on its website.&nbsp; Ebay does not have to allow the sale of paper USDA Food Coupons on its website even though the sale is no longer illegal.&nbsp; They can establish whatever policy they want.&nbsp; The original policy made sense when possession and sale by those not on the program were illegal but there is no reason to maintain it now that the prohibition has been lifted (other than corporate inertia).&nbsp; That is the frustrating part.&nbsp; The reason they were prohibited in the first place is because it was illegal but that is no longer the case so this reason for the Ebay policy is no longer valid.&nbsp; For whatever reason, Ebay does not want to change their policy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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