Arkansas is considering updating its SNAP cards to include security chips to prevent fraud, as skimmer scams are on the rise ...

New card format aims to reduce fraud and improve transaction security, prompting operational updates for stores and technical ...

No states currently issue chip-enabled SNAP EBT cards, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department, which oversees SNAP, a program formerly known as food stamps.

Moving the commonwealth’s 670,000 SNAP households to new cards is going to require a minimum of several months’ work, and — at the current rate of theft — each month means another $1 ...

SNAP benefit recipients use debit cards with a magnetic strip and PIN rather than the more secure chip cards that have been ... Gov. Phil Murphy's proposed FY26 budget includes $3.2 million ...

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced a bill Thursday to upgrade the cybersecurity defenses of SNAP cards to prevent scammers from stealing recipients… ...

California budgeted $50 million for the transition to chip EBT cards. In New York, Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas, who represents the 34th district in Queens, said it would likely cost ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- More than two million Pennsylvanians receive SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps, including nearly 500,000 people in Philadelphia, according to the PA Department of ...

“As a reminder, costs to transition to chip cards for SNAP EBT are a state administrative expense that is reimbursed by the federal government at 50%,” wrote then-USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.