The U.S. Department of Agriculture is targeting criminals engaging in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fraud, as Secretary Brooke Rollins warns criminals, “We are coming for you.”
USDA announced the operations in a press 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,” — said in a statement that they are truly “sick and depraved individuals who are stealing food from low-income Americans for their own profit.”
It’s about time!
I’ll believe it when I see it
will this include the ones with five shopping carts and a ride home in a new Escalade
Especially those!!