Massachusetts welfare recipients have been using their EBT cards while on tropical vacations to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and other trips thousands of miles away from their home state, an investigation by the Boston Herald revealed.
Outages were reported on Sunday by participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) who were unable to use their electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards to buy groceries at stores in some states.
Food stamp enrollment dropped over the past year in 47 out of 50 states, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics on nationwide food stamp enrollment.
Authorities arrested and charged two dozen people for carrying out $50,000 worth of food stamp fraud, according to investigators with the Rhode Island State Police.
An investigator in charge of weeding out food stamp fraud in Mississippi is accused of carrying out fraud schemes like the ones he was supposed to stop.
Breitbart News exclusively obtained California’s food stamp waiver which details how the state exploited a loophole in SNAP work requirements to allow 95 percent of its counties to become exempted from food stamp work requirements.
