Sentence examples for recipients purchasing from inspiring English sources

Kevin Concannon, the USDA's undersecretary for nutrition, said the data shows food stamp recipients' purchasing patterns are more similar to than different from everyone else's.  .

Last year, the New York Times published an article with the headline "In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda". It argued that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — i.e., food stamps — recipients purchased significantly more soda than better heeled households.

You'll also need to know whether the recipients purchased anything and, if so, what.

The USDA reported last year that SNAP recipients purchase essentially the same foods as everyone else, which turns out to be a distressing amount of soda.

The federal data indicated that SNAP recipients purchased more soft drinks than any other category of grocery good, but also found that there were "no major differences" between what SNAP households purchased at the grocery store and what non-SNAP households bought.

To report a welfare recipient purchasing name-brand paper towels or driving a late-model car, say or type "my tax dollars".

An earlier version of the food stamp bill restricted two-thirds of a SNAP recipients' purchases to food approved for a separate federal program that serves pregnant women and mothers with infant children.

Last month, congressional Republicans voted to repeal a measure that had blocked some Social Security disability insurance recipients from purchasing firearms.

In Maine, state officials are requesting a waiver from the USDA that would allow the state to ban its SNAP recipients from purchasing candy and soda using the federal benefits.

Citing his own trips to the grocery store with his wife, Landra, Reid said that proposed reductions in SNAP funding would make it difficult for some recipients to purchase ground beef and milk in the same shopping trip.

Card recipients often purchase more than the value of their gifts, and stores need not discount their merchandise to draw shoppers in.