MASSACHUSETTS FOOD STAMP recipients can now purchase groceries online through Amazon and Walmart as part of a US Department of Agriculture pilot program.
The program went live Friday, allowing participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to use their electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, cards to buy food on the retailers’ websites and have it delivered to avoid personal visits to the grocery store. The food assistance benefit cannot be used to pay the delivery fees.
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