Over 10 months last year, the city received 34,532 claims for stolen SNAP benefits, the vast majority of which—92.9 percent—weren’t reimbursed. The most were submitted by residents in East New…
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of several New Yorkers who had their EBT accounts drained through skimming—a type of electronic fraud in which card data is stolen.
This year alone, thousands of low-income New Yorkers have had benefits stolen from their EBT cards, which allow them to buy food at certain stores. “It was very hard,” one…
