What is the amount of feeding required for each day for one who owes making up fasts and feeding, and is it permissible to pay it in cash, and what is the cash amount?

Question:
He asks: What is the amount of feeding required for each day for one who owes making up fasts and feeding, and is it permissible to pay it in cash, and what is the cash amount?

Answer:
It is obligatory to pay it out as food. If he gathers it and gives it to a poor person, that suffices. If he owes a full month of Ramadan, it is better for him to give the food to a poor person. For a month, that is fifteen sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg). He may give it to a poor person or to a poor household with three or four people; there is no harm in that. He may gather it all and give it to the poor household or the poor person. Even if he gathers it all, fifteen sa', for example, if he owes a month and he did not fast until after Ramadan, then he owes making up the fasts and feeding fifteen sa' for each day of the prayer, if he delayed it without a valid legal excuse, such as illness or travel. Likewise, if an elderly person is unable to fast, he feeds half a sa' for each day. If he gathers it all and gives it to a poor person at the beginning of the month, in the middle of the month, or at the end of the month, there is no harm. If he gathers it all and gives it to one poor person or to the people of a poor household, there is no harm.