>>519336926
Decades ago they used to be distributed as a little booklet of coupons that you would tear out and exchange at the cashier for food. Each month mammy would have to go down to the government building to get her booklet to feed dem keedz.
Nowadays it's a digital account with a card attached to your name. It makes it easier to track and dispense and also more difficult for the recipients to sell the value off for real cash.