Reported SNAP theft in Lynchburg, Virginia fell from nearly $63,000 in August to just under $20,000 by late October, a drop of more than two-thirds, Cardinal News reports. The decline came as Lynchburg households received new chip-enabled EBT cards. Selina Morgan, a client services supervisor at the city’s Department of Human Services, put it this way: October’s total is a third of August’s.
The numbers matter to anyone who spends benefits on a card, because they show how fast skimming can swing from a rare problem to a monthly loss. Reported theft in Lynchburg averaged about $2,000 a month in the first half of the year, per state Department of Social Services data cited by Cardinal News. The summer spike was a jump of roughly 30 times that baseline…