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State helplines are available for SNAP beneficiaries to report fraud, theft, or lost EBT cards, ensuring recovery and securing their accounts.

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Refund for Food Stamps: If SNAP benefits are compromised through hacking, theft, or a lost EBT card, recipients can take action by reaching out to their state’s helpline. These helplines are available to report issues such as unauthorized transactions, PIN changes, or card loss. Beneficiaries can also request a replacement card and reset their PIN to secure their account.

In cases of fraud or theft, filing a report with the state SNAP office is essential. Although recovery of stolen benefits isn’t always guaranteed, state agencies provide support to address such incidents.

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How are resources from EBT cards stolen?

The prevalence of phishing and card cloning frauds is rising. In order to steal both the PIN and card information, scammers typically conceal card cloning devices in card readers. This kind of physical cloning is called “skimming.”

Hacking happens when a user accesses a store’s pirated portal or when their personal information is taken in order to retrieve their card number and passwords for online transactions.

Even in distant places from where they reside, victims frequently become aware of this breach when their balance drastically declines or they see an unlawful transaction in their account.

Refund for Food Stamps: How can I get a refund?

Anyone can report this issue and ask for their SNAP benefits to be refunded starting on October 1, 2022. Benefits that were stolen before to this date are exempt from this procedure. As of January 1, 2022, those who have unjustly stopped receiving their SNAP benefits may also do so.

To be eligible, you don’t even need to have a current Cash Assistance or SNAP account.

You should be aware that there are deadlines for filing benefits claims:

  • There is a 30-day statute of limitations from the date the recipient learned of the crime if benefits were fraudulently obtained on or after August 21, 2023.

You can leave the field empty if you are unsure about the precise discovery date. The claim is not rejected as a result of this.

Only claims that happened with a discovery date more than 30 days prior to the form’s submission date will be accepted.

In these kinds of situations, how much is reimbursed?

You can ask for a return of the entire amount of the benefits if you were cheated for less than two months. The values are also adjusted to a tabulator. You can receive twice as much as you would have for the month before the benefits were stolen, or roughly two months’ worth of benefits, if the sum is higher.

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The following procedures are used to make the claim:

  • Provide proof that the benefits were illegally withdrawn from your account.
  • You must submit an EBT transaction history identifying fraudulent transactions (made by someone other than the account holder) using either of the following two options:
  • With a query of your EBT history at connectebt.com or by downloading the ConnectEBT mobile app.
  • You can also call EBT Customer Service at 1-888-328-6399 to hear your last 10 transactions or speak with a customer service representative.
  • With this information, you can report your card stolen on the website: https://www.connectebt.com/ or by calling EBT Customer Service at 888-328-6399.
  • Once you report the card stolen, it will be suspended and you will not be able to use it. You will have to wait for the replacement, which is usually delivered within 7 days. In case of hacking, you should also report the card as stolen, to indicate that the benefits of your card were stolen electronically.
  • If you do not report it in time, you run the risk of not receiving the refund because you allow the person who misused it to continue doing so.
  • Once reported, you must file a claim for benefits. To do this, you must provide your customer identification number (identification number on your EBT card), your case number and your EBT transaction history. You can make this request online, or by visiting your local service center to submit the paper form.

You can also send this request by mail to the address:

  • Department of Social Services
  • PO Box 02-9121
  • Brooklyn GPO, Brooklyn, NY 11202

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