The Georgia Department of Human Services announced plans last October to help Georgia food stamp beneficiaries who were victims of fraud. In the time since, they’ve replaced about $3 million in benefits they say were stolen or skimmed.
The announcement focused on how Georgians who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assitance Program funding whose benefits were stolen.
DHS told Channel 2 Action News that 7,040 claims for replacement benefits had been submitted since Oct. 19, 2023 and more than 5,600 had been approved, according to data through Sept. 15.
Since last fall, DHS said they’d issued “more than $2.9 million in replacement benefits.”
All of the claims resulted from “SNAP benefits being skimmed or stolen by other fraudulent means.”
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