A disabled woman left a bankrupt after $ 400 of her account has been eliminated.
Joyce Hawgt said she could not buy food because a Delivery date To restore stolen money has passed.
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The woman, from Anchorage, Alaska, said that she had a big problem after the thief took the benefits of the additional nutritional assistance program.
Joyce said that she and her husband relied on the advantages of disability to buy groceries.
Disabilities said that she became stuck after the discovery of the Federal Payment Program.
Joyce said she was not able to recover $ 400 stolen dollars, as the sudden re -compensation plan ended on December 20.
According to SNAP leaders, the agency's employees told the recipient to inform this change in December.
Nevertheless, Joyce said if shocked and only claimed the discovery of this federal change recently while he was on the phone to the agency.
“They tied me to another person who did not give me his name, and they will not give me their name, and they mainly said these few words, as of December 20, we no longer respond or return the stamps of the food, Joyce, Alaska news source.
“I was really surprised when this supervisor told me, as you know, about this state, but she could not tell her who came from him or where he came from.
“I am mainly stuck between a rock and a difficult place, I can't go to the store and buy groceries.”
The Director of the General Assistance Department, Deeb Eterge, sympathized with the terrible experience of the Hamart, explaining that her experience with her office was not useful.
But she confirmed that she would bring the case with her employees.
Etheridge added that with no guarantee that the state will get federal removals, the decision is summarized in a plan to prevent replacement prevention.
“Without continuing to fund the Fed in replacing these stolen benefits, the state will require the transfer of our limited resources from other basic public assistance programs, and therefore, setting our efforts to focus on prevention is the place we are already.”
Etheridge also revealed that besides the available information in the state department healthOn the Internet, her office looks forward to moving to EBT cards that support chips to reduce fraud reports.
She said that there are two types of fraud reports, which are people, either receive Robocalls who ask for card information or, such as Haght, the people's card information is stolen after passing through a sale station – called “scrape”.
Ehthor said that the administration is constantly encouraged anyone who has been a victim of this fraud to present the police reports and change its pin regularly.
She added that due to the major numbers of reports submitted to the police, its department can work closely with the application of the law to end the sudden benefits that are requested via the Internet and sent outside the state.
Ensuring that fraud can only occur within the state, it created a difference of millions of dollars in the Snap boxes that stole it, as etheridge claims.
It also recommended contacting the number on the back of the EBT card to understand all the information related to the account and stay on a permanent knowledge.
But after the last Haung experience, you feel that the communication process of sharing important information and giving transparency should be improved.
She said: “They are very conservative in giving you any useful information.
“In the past, I managed to call the phone number at the back of the dining seal card, and it will tell you where I had a treatment, when it was, and how it was and is no longer available anymore.”
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