Here in Georgia they issue a debit card thing for groceries. Have to show ID when you swipe the card, but you just go shopping with card owner pick out what you want, they pay for the stuff. I think the going rate is still about $.50 on the dollar. When in high school, I worked at a store that would give you cash for the stamps, the store!!
Hell just this week in a nice Atlanta suburb, bunch of squaters were living in an empty house, a $300,000 empty house. The cops came nicely removed them, had the house boarded up, then the squaters broke back in and were pissed when the neighbors called the cops back out. It was their house.