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Administration's efforts to address SNAP benefit skimming
1:10:26
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First Deputy Commissioner Jill Berry outlines the administration's efforts to address SNAP benefit skimming, focusing on advocacy for technological improvements and legislative support.
- The administration is advocating with the state to change EBT cards to include chips for better protection
- They support state legislation (Senate Bill 1465 and Assembly Bill 699) that would require the state to enable chip cards
- Berry encourages everyone to support these bills to implement chips on EBT cards
Jill Berry
1:10:26
So the efforts that the administration are making are to number one advocate with the state to get to change the EBT cards to have chips in them because that is the main way to protect needy New Yorkers from having their benefits skimmed in the first place.
Chris Banks
1:10:45
What's the timeline for that to be accomplished?
Jill Berry
1:10:48
We encourage you we support the state legislation that would require the state to enable chip cards.
1:10:57
That's senate bill fourteen sixty five and assembly bill six ninety nine.
1:11:03
We support those bills.
1:11:05
We encourage everyone to support those bills as well so that the state will implement EBT cards chips on EBT cards.