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Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.

By Eli Hager, ProPublica · October 13, 2026

It wasn’t the kind of call a grocery store gets every day. A customer with a thick Eastern European accent was on the phone saying he wanted to buy several thousand cans of Red Bull. Could the store have them in stock in a few days? Also, did they have equipment to move all those stacks of energy drinks into the…

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Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.

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