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$60,000 balance seen on an EBT card“The largest that I've heard about is right at around $60,000 on an EBT card. Nobody's going hungry in that house, obviously.”“One of the ways that people commit food stamp fraud or SNAP fraud is you get a card and it's got a certain amount of value to it, then you sell it for less than the value of what you can buy in terms of food, but you sell it for cash. It creates incentives for people to, number one, acquire as many cards as possible, number two, to keep as high a balance on these cards as possible. I've seen cards as much as $20,000, this was on an EBT card. So how does that happen— People are just kept on the program for years, and they keep rolling these balances up and whether they're using the card or not. they're supposed to get rid of it and expunge the benefits after 9 months. But if all you go and do is buy a stick of gum once every 9 months, your balance in your card, even if you're no longer on SNAP, that card is still good. It's happening across the country. In fact, the largest that I've heard about is right at around $60,000 on an EBT card. No- nobody's going hungry in that house, obviously.”