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USDA Targets Criminals Engaging in SNAP
Fraud: ‘We Are Coming for You’

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Posted By: FlyRight, 5/6/2025 5:43:27 AM

USDA announced the operations in a jpress release as the USDA Special Investigations Unit worked with local law enforcement to identify criminals stealing SNAP benefits. According to the press release, SNAP theft on EBT cards has “dramatically increased in recent years.” One way criminals do this is card skimmers, essentially stealing these benefits loaded onto the card. USDA notes that international criminal organizations are “heavily” involved in these thefts as well.Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services John Walk, who participated in the operations — which are “part of the largest effort to combat EBT fraud in United States Secret Service history,”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Californian 5/6/2025 6:00:49 AM (No. 1945852)
The next NYT headline, "Trump takes food from babies mouths".
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Bur Oak 5/6/2025 6:59:16 AM (No. 1945870)
Do away with the cards and go back to script.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: 3XALADY 5/6/2025 7:44:21 AM (No. 1945901)
Or go back to the government furnished food like I remember from years ago. I don't know what all was available, but remember people talking about lots of cheese. Also heard about the Cadillac driving people picking it up.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Birddog 5/6/2025 7:54:57 AM (No. 1945906)
Make "Snap" ID a "Real ID",,,,same set of proofs need for a DL/Passport, with a PICTURE as well so only the intended can use one.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 5/6/2025 7:57:21 AM (No. 1945907)
Obsolete every card in circulation and re-issue new ones that are linked to a picture ID card and/or a thumb print. I know, they are too stupid to get an ID card so they will starve. These assistance programs have grown from the 1960s from basic subsistance to the point where these people and their pets eat better than working taxpayers and they look it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 5/6/2025 8:05:04 AM (No. 1945912)
It's about time!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Vaquero45 5/6/2025 9:57:53 AM (No. 1945969)
Why tell them you’re coming after them? Just do it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mc squared 5/6/2025 10:45:14 AM (No. 1945998)
Ever been on line at the grocery and the person ahead of you is told there's nothing left on her SNAP card and she pulls out more? I have.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: anniebc 5/6/2025 12:50:02 PM (No. 1946052)
Many of the con artist dummies are talking about their fraud on the internet. Criminals are dumb.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 5/6/2025 12:53:37 PM (No. 1946058)
Probably huge numbers of stores are heavily involved in this fraud, too.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: cor-vet 5/6/2025 1:39:03 PM (No. 1946092)
My grandson & his fiance have a 2 year old they buy for, on a SNAP card. They keep putting off marriage, even though both have well paying jobs, because the SNAP benefits are 'free!' I have talked to them until I'm blue in the face, as has his father. The standard answer is, "everybody does it" and when you observe at the grocery, you conclude that he's right, all these young parents are doing it.
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