Posted on 10/14/2024 9:21:36 PM PDT by CFW
SNAP recipients across Georgia are facing a tough challenge, as hackers have reportedly wiped out funds from their food assistance cards, leaving many without essential support.
It was nearly $1,000 Branaita Jones says a thief took from her Georgia SNAP account hundreds of miles away.
“I called the food stamp people and they said somebody took my food stamps in New York,” Jones told Channel 2′s Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln.
The Department of Human Services says recipients like Jones are one of thousands who’ve reported stolen funds from their EBT cards.
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The Georgia Department of Human Services announced plans last October to help Georgia food stamp beneficiaries who were victims of fraud. In the time since they’ve replaced about $3 million in benefits they say were stolen or skimmed.
The announcement focused on how Georgians who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding whose benefits were stolen.
DHS told Channel 2 Action News that 7,040 claims for replacement benefits had been submitted since Oct. 19, 2023, and more than 5,600 had been approved, according to data through Sept. 15.
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Taxpayers are of course on the hook again.
What do you want to bet illegal alien Nigerian scammers in NY are involved. Or possibly an inside job.
That's the real crime.
Give them food.
+1
I’m sure the deadbeat cardholders themselves had NOTHING to do with the organized theft... no sir... of COURSE they expected (and deserved) to be made whole by Uncle Sugar... and of course they were made whole...
...Nothing to see here, taxpayer. Move along, now...
This sounds like bullshit.
Ditto.
>> Need to get rid of this and return to the old commodities program. Give them food.
Damn straight!
Now we know how Fani Willis has $20,000 in cash in her house.
Look up Fani
Bet the illegal aliens have cards that still work.
If not then we know it really was hackers.
$1000 is far too much for one person. Perhaps she has a bunch of kids.
Or the system is rotten to the core.
When I was guardian for six kids the most they ever got was around $700/month.
She can always line up for some of that free cheese that our govt gives away.
Dey stols my money
I am a little skeptical.
A Georgia Food Stamp account is not supposed to work in any other state.
Are Food Stamp credits fungible and transferable, and only the state cards are exclusive?
Jawja . . . New Yawk . . . hmmmmm.
I think my social security check was hacked too. Yeah, that’s the ticket…
When the food stamps were sent in paper form, they would sell them for pennies on the dollar. Then they went digital promising it would reduce fraud. Now, they probably sell their card number for pennies on the dollar.
“A Georgia Food Stamp account is not supposed to work in any other state.”
When they were just SNAP that was true. Now they are SNAP-EBT. The EBT makes them usable in all 50 states and U.S. territories no matter which state they were issued in.
https://hopdes.com/travel-explained/ebt-card-another-state/
Yep- there was a mom in front of me at the grocery store and her cart was loaded up with candy, cookies, chips and all kinds of ice cream. She pulled out a SNAP card.
Me behind her only paying for what ** I ** can afford.
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