What is required of one who breaks the fast for a day in Ramadan

The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. A message from a listener who indicated his name with the letters A.A.K. He says: A man broke his fast for one day in Ramadan, and some scholars guided him to pay an amount to three very poor families, and the number of people in these three families is twenty, so that it suffices them for fifteen days. Is this correct? And if it is not correct, what does he do? May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh:
He broke his fast for one day in Ramadan.

The questioner:
Yes, that is what he says.

The Shaykh:
The one who broke his fast for one day in Ramadan is required to make it up; he is required to make it up. He is not required to feed people unless he delays making it up until after the end of Ramadan without an excuse. In that case, he feeds a poor person the amount of half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), which is one and a half kilograms, for that day. He pays it to a poor person, or to several poor people, or to a house; there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.