SNAP card security: Oregon proposes chip upgrade to fight skimming theft

Published on: 01/16/2026

This news was posted by Oregon Today News

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Thieves who skim SNAP recipients' EBT cards at grocery stores have been more active in the past few years. (File photo by Jan Murphy / PennLive)

Oregon’s Department of Human Services is asking the state Legislature this year to pony up $6.8 million to launch “a mass replacement” of food stamp benefit cards so they can be embedded with new security chips.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/01/oregon-wants-to-use-security-chips-to-stop-thieves-from-draining-the-accounts-of-snap-recipients.html

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