Imagine depending on SNAP benefits to put food on the table, but when you get to the register, the cashier tells you your card declined…That’s what happened to Newark resident Jasmin Wilson and she was shocked.
“I said declined? I said maybe I put the wrong pin in. So, I tried it again, she said, ‘No, how much do you have on your card?’ I said like a hundred and something dollars,” Wilson recounts regarding the exchange with the cashier at a ShopRite.
And Wilson isn’t the only one whose card is being used without ever having lost the physical card. A News 12 viewer sent in a video of a line outside the Family Services building in Jersey City with people trying to figure out who was swiping their benefits…