EBT shoppers in Oklahoma to lose access to candy and soda starting Sunday

OKLAHOMA CITY- (KOKH) — Starting Sunday, when you walk into stores, you won’t be able to buy the sweets you’re used to getting with an EBT card.

According to Oklahoma DHS, this goes for chocolate bars, hard candies, gummies, caramels.

Interestingly enough though, baked goods like cookies cakes or muffins don’t apply, and if you wanted to get cocoa powder or chocolate chips by themselves, you could.

When it comes to the fridge, you can’t get soda or energy drinks, and you can’t even get tea or lemonade that’s sweetened bottled or canned.

Things you can still get include meat, poultry, bread, pasta, 100% fruit or vegetable juice, and fruits and veggies.

Dairy products are also allowed, so maybe you could get away with chocolate milk.

Flavored water and sweetened water is also not allowed.

But we still have questions when you get to the check out or self checkout line: Who’s in charge of enforcing these changes? Is it the stores? And what happens if you try to buy these items?

Oklahoma DHS wrote back with answers, saying the enforcement will be done by our federal partners at food and nutrition service department, and that cards will only work to purchase items that are considered eligible.

DHS said snap customers don’t need to take any action at this time and add Oklahomans will continue to receive their benefits as usual.