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Electronic benefit transfer is an electronic system used in the United States that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_benefit_transfer
There is a HUGE amount of EBT funds being stolen before people even have a chance to use the funds. States are not refunding it either