COLUMBUS — Ohioans who use their federal food stamp benefits to buy sodas and other sugar-added drinks may no longer be able to add them to their grocery carts under a provision in the recently passed House version of the state budget.
The Department of Job and Family Services would be required to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture for permission to bar the purchase of “sugar-sweetened beverages” using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
If the federal government should deny the waiver, the state would have to try again every year…