Two Cuban women reported in Miami the theft of their food stamps, the so-called “food stamps” that the United States government provides so that people who have recently arrived in the country or in need can buy food.
A low-income lady named Hilda Pacheco,told journalist Daniel Benítez from "News 23"Univision that in a supermarket when he went to pay for his purchase he realized that your card balance was at zero.
For years Hilda has received assistance fromSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from the Federal Government and until now had never had problems with food stamps.
In her conversation with the journalist Hilda showed that on the day of the robbery around 10:34 in the morning she made a purchase for a cost of 15.52 USD and still had 275.48 USD on the card, however, it was barely an hour later in another storethere was nothing in the account.
This lady's niece, Mayala Alfonso, who arrived in the United States 6 months ago crossing the southern border with Mexico,He also reported the theft of his “food stamps”.
His case was very similar, on March 22 he was left with only 60 cents in his account after three transactions in Philadelphia that occurred in less than a minute with which 234.37 USD was stolen from your card, money with which he feeds his two children while he receives his work permit.
According to Mayala, as a result of what happened she called the Florida Department of Children and Families to report the theft of the “food stamps” and after several hours the person she was able to speak with told her that there was a high incidence of this type of facts.
According to the information offered by Daniel Benítez, the cases of these two Cuban women in Miami “add to the356 reports that the Federal Government has received in this fiscal year on benefit claims that have been stolen in Florida, of them, 254 have been approved and the money returned.”
However, he clarifies that the process to get the money back is delayed and can take weeks, something that greatly affects people who need the “food stamps” to be able to feed themselves.
In 2018nearly 200 people were arrested in Florida for fraud by individuals and companies to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Also in 2022 a man was accused ofuse food stamp coupons from a deceased woman in Miami-Dade.
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