Yes, its a debit card that gets reloaded monthly by the government. If you have zero income, you can get about $280 per month. For every $100 you receive in earned or unearned income above $198, you lose $30 in benefits.
Also there are restrictions on what it can be used for, no hot food, like a rotisserie chicken from the hot case or prepared dinner from the hot bar. No non food items, like over the counter meds or toiletries, no diapers.
They tried for a while, years ago, to say no junk food, like sodas and candy but that got enough backlash that they gave up on that restriction.
Trump wanted to scrap the whole thing and deliver a box of canned food each month instead, it got a lot of support from people who hate “the poors” and want them to suffer for the crime of being poor, but luckily it did not pass.
There is another program called WIC (pregnant women, infants, children) that does have more restrictions, it’s pretty much a monthly allowance of baby food, milk, canned tuna and peanut butter. The people who want to disallow abortion are doing their best to get rid of that one at the moment.
