Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT): How It Works, Uses, and Benefits

Learn how Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) works, its uses in government assistance programs like SNAP, and how it aids ...
WSB-TV

GBI: State Workers Stole $1.7M In Electronic Food Stamp Cards

ATLANTA — Four people, including two state employees, are in custody, accused of stealing $1.7 million in EBT or electronic benefit transfer cards from the Georgia Department of Human Services. The ...
13abc

Lucas Co. officials see spike in electronic theft of food stamps, SNAP benefits

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Lucas County officials are warning residents of a spike in electronic theft of food stamps and SNAP benefits. A resident who wished to remain anonymous explained what happened to ...
WESA

Electronic theft of SNAP benefits, a national problem, hits Pa.

A selection of produce is shown in this file photo. Pennsylvania Human Services officials are warning that scammers can electronically steal food stamp benefits from people who need them. When ...
The Gazette

Time running out for low-income Colorado families victimized by electronic theft of food stamps

Low-income recipients of the federal government’s food stamp or financial assistance programs who believe they have been victims of electronic theft of their benefits through card skimming or card ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Residents of two counties begin receiving electronic food stamps

CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) -- Food stamp recipients in Linn and Jones counties began receiving their electronic benefits transfer cards Wednesday, after testing for more than a year in Linn County. "We're ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Food stamps in Iowa to become electronic

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Food stamp recipients in two eastern Iowa counties will be the first to try out electronic benefits transfer cards this spring. Retailers in Linn and Jones counties are being ...
Billings Gazette

Food stamps go all electronic

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Agriculture Department, hoping to modernize the staid image of food stamps, is taking the program for the needy fully electronic and looking for a snazzier name. The paper stamps ...
Penn Live

Recipients rack up thousands in Pa. food stamp card balances, raising questions about expansion

More than $400 million in federal aid intended to help feed low-income Pennsylvania families went unspent last month. Many of the more than 1.9 million Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program ...