Uber Eats will now accept food stamps for payment

[get these nets]

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Uber Eats to Accept Food Stamps As Payment Option for Grocery Delivery Next Year​

September 24, 2023

Uber Eats have announced they will now accept food stamps as a form of payment.
The company will launch the payment option next year and people who are in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, will be able to use their benefits to purchase groceries off the Uber Eats app.
Uber also announced that it will soon be accepting flexible spending account cards, Flex cards, and state waiver payments made through Managed Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plans. According to a statement, the company is implementing this new payment option to reduce “barriers to fresh groceries” in places with little access to quality food.
Instacart and Amazon have already incorporated food stamps as payment for online food purchases. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 41 million people received SNAP benefits in June, which made it the largest food assistance program in the country.
The USDA first allowed food stamps in 2019 when they launched a program that started in New York State and branched out to all 50 states in June. Walmart and Amazon partnered with the USDA as part of the program.
Instacart paired up with the USDA to give SNAP recipients the chance to shop online, while announcing in August that they would expand the option to all 50 states.
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[get these nets]

*just jokes

 

[LordDeathwatch]

Title was misleading AF because that makes sense for groceries.

 

[B86]

Why wouldn’t they? Literally all the rest of the grocery store delivery services all accept EBT…

 

[jwinfield]

Makes absolute sense.

 

[Luke Cage]

Good, i always feel bad seeing women sitting at the bus stop outside the grocery store with a bunch of bags of groceries. ( had to do this in college sometimes and it wasn't fun)
people didn't put the logic together that people on ebt plans might not be able to afford cars either.

 

[analog]

I'm not sure what the Uber eats premium is (20%?) but if the same applies to groceries than this may not be as helpful as it seems.

Paying for convenience when you can't afford to is not the move.

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

Huh! I'm surprised it doesn't work for fast food.

 

[Remote]

So while this sounds like a good move for people who may not have transportation to get groceries, I'm not sure I like the idea of public money being spent to subsidize a private company like Uber. Because you know Uber Eats will still have those delivery charges, and that SNAP money will go to Uber.

It might be better if Uber worked out a fixed deal where maybe the delivery fee was lowered, or waived for SNAP money purchases.

 

[The God Poster]

The grocery stores already do this tho. Go to the Walmart/Target app order for delivery.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

@DrexlersFade now your imaginary harlem of pawgs can

 

[*crackSTAR*]

Those tips are gonna minimal.

 

[I Really Mean It]

So while this sounds like a good move for people who may not have transportation to get groceries, I'm not sure I like the idea of public money being spent to subsidize a private company like Uber. Because you know Uber Eats will still have those delivery charges, and that SNAP money will go to Uber.

It might be better if Uber worked out a fixed deal where maybe the delivery fee was lowered, or waived for SNAP money purchases.

SNAP doesn’t cover service fees/delivery charges/tips.

 

[kj614]

Yayy..

 

[Germms]

How do food stamps work?