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Senate committee hears testimony urging restoration of stolen SNAP benefits and EBT chip upgrades
Summary
At a second hearing on Senate Resolution 29, proponents representing Ohio food banks, advocacy groups and a policy organization urged Congress to resume reimbursements for skimmed SNAP benefits and backed state investments to upgrade EBT cards to chip technology to prevent skimming.
The Ohio Senate Workforce Development Committee held a second hearing on Senate Resolution 29 and heard proponent testimony urging Congress to restore reimbursements for stolen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and to back technology upgrades to Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards.
Proponents told the committee that organized criminal skimming rings have stolen SNAP benefits from vulnerable recipients, that federal reimbursement authority that ran from December 2022 through December 2024 has expired, and that the lapse leaves families with no federal recourse when benefits are skimmed. Hopeland Gavin, director of nutrition policy and programs at the Ohio Association of Food Banks, told the committee the association…
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