Food stamp scams

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Geraldo Rivera, Now It Can Be Told, in 1991 food stamp buying and selling is widespread in New York and other cities across America. We see on hidden camera a supermarket owner buying $25,000 worth of food stamps for $15,000. Alexander Johnson reports from the field.

In the late 1990s most states started phasing out actual food stamps and began to use the debit-card based EBT.

 

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