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on your side tonight with a warning for
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families receiving SNAP benefits
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Franklin County Jobs and Family Services
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confirms to us that thieves have been
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installing skimming devices on card
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readers the crooks are looking to steal
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EBT card information to make online
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purchases with those stolen snap funds
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locally 216 reports were made in the
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month of July alone totaling more than
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$37,000 Nick VIN on your side with what
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you need to look out for falling asleep
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waking up learning you were scammed the
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SNAP benefits meant to feed your family
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um I have three kids to feed um you know
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one with special needs and no idea how
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we're going to feed them this month for
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Taylor Timmons it's a nightmare turned
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reality Timmons the mother of three kids
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now is to find a way to get her benefits
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back on track if something like this
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happens to you step one file a police
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report Jobs and Family Services also
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recommends filling out this form to
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replace stolen SNAP benefits Franklin
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County Commissioner John o' Grady says
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the process to get those stolen funds
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back could take up to 30 days our agency
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will work with them to make sure that
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they're uh taken care of Timmons isn't
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alone in the past month Franklin County
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received 216 reports of stolen benefits
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thieves taking more than
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$37,000 Crook's using skimmers to rip
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off that Vital Information of Grady says
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State investigators Rec Rec found
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skimming devices in two local grocery
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stores that this is happening um that
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that you know anybody can be a victim
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Timmons is slowly working through the
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process to get reimbursed worried though
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about what her family will do in the
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meantime it's very stressful I can't I
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don't even have an answer for you right
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now honestly not sure what to do another
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way to prevent or detect fraud is to
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have the connect EBT app on your phone
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this way you can lock your card in
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between purchases I'm your side in
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Columbus Nick vand ABC 6 News
