MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WIAT ) — About 14,000 EBT participants had benefits stolen from them last month. Now, the Alabama Department of Human Resources is bringing heightened security measures to users next year, which involve chip cards.
“We just ask those individuals to continue to try to be vigilant of their surroundings when they’re shopping,” said Brandon Hardin, the DHR’s food assistance director.
Hardin explained that there’s been close to 30,000 cases of fraud among EBT users over the past few months. He said it is rolling out chip cards for users next spring to combat card skimming…