It is illogical to require national eligibility standards but not require a uniform, interoperable benefit delivery system. Congress could not have been contemplating that result when it called for uniform eligibility standards. Furthermore, there is a long line of court cases addressing policies that violate the right to freely travel across state lines. For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was formed, we are one people, with one common country. These principles have been consistently reinforced in the years since.
Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values.
Given that federal agencies have an obligation to enforce and uphold the Constitution and that said Constitution protects the right to travel, we contend that it is therefore incumbent on the agencies to not only mandate nationwide interoperability of EBT but to further assure that none of the costs associated with affording such universal access be passed on to the recipient as to do so would be in direct violation of the Constitutional guarantee of free travel.