Post by Logan on Feb 11, 2016 19:45:06 GMT -6
State defends letter pushing food stamp recipients to put photos on EBT cards
Lydia Richard said she was angry and confused after receiving a letter from the state last week that appeared to require her to add her driver’s license photo to the EBT card she uses for food stamp benefits.
“The state’s electronic benefit transfer EBT card is now a photo card. Our records indicate that you do not have an EBT photo card,” reads a form letter sent to thousands of food stamp recipients and signed by Bethany Hamm, director of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Family Independence.
There is no photo requirement for EBT cards used for food stamp benefits in Maine.
But a Maine DHHS spokeswoman said the letter was not deceptive and that having more photos on EBT cards would help deter fraudulent use of the cards.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/10/critics-slam-letter-sent-by-maine-dhhs-about-photo-id-on-food-stamp-cards/
Lydia Richard said she was angry and confused after receiving a letter from the state last week that appeared to require her to add her driver’s license photo to the EBT card she uses for food stamp benefits.
“The state’s electronic benefit transfer EBT card is now a photo card. Our records indicate that you do not have an EBT photo card,” reads a form letter sent to thousands of food stamp recipients and signed by Bethany Hamm, director of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Family Independence.
There is no photo requirement for EBT cards used for food stamp benefits in Maine.
But a Maine DHHS spokeswoman said the letter was not deceptive and that having more photos on EBT cards would help deter fraudulent use of the cards.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/02/10/critics-slam-letter-sent-by-maine-dhhs-about-photo-id-on-food-stamp-cards/