Lingerie store accepts EBT card
March 12, 2014 by admin
Filed under Latest Lingerie News
GONZALES, LA (WAFB) -
A lingerie store in Gonzales has posted on their front door they accept most credit cards, including the EBT card. That’s the Electronic Benefits Transfer card.
Kiss My Lingerie, in Gonzales, Louisiana, sells adult specialty items. The store moved into the Magnolia Shopping Center on South Burnside Avenue a few years ago. But accepting the EBT payment is something that happened eight months ago, according to the owner.
The owner went on to say, that they accept every form of payment and do not discriminate against their customers.
9 News spoke with a woman, who asked her not identify her, who works near the store. She says in the last few weeks, she’s noticed more people going inside the adult shop. She says that when she saw the EBT listed as an acceptable form of payment on the front door of the store.
“We were told anything could be purchased there, with the food stamp card,” she said. “no child I know eats edible underwear.”
The woman, says to her knowledge, the EBT card is supposed to be used for the support of children.
A spokesperson for the Department of Children and Family Services says the EBT card, or the Louisiana Purchase card is not just for food stamps. There are also cash benefits available, for other family needs. The only thing the cash benefits do not cover: alcohol, tobacco, lottery tickets, casinos and adult entertainment.
Although in this case that skirts the line, the state says there’s no violation of the law with the store accepting the card for lingerie and other adult items.
The state also says because the cash benefits are part of a federal program, Louisiana does not dictate how families spend the money of those cards. Which we’re told could be less than $200 a month or up to $400 a month.
“It’s still the taxpayers dollars that are being used in a store like that, and that really upsets me.”
DCFS says there are less than 10,000 people who get the cash benefits, compared to 835,000 people who use the card strictly for food benefits. Retail stores must apply to the federal government if they want to accept the EBT cards as a payment type.
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