Incompetence as bad as theft!-----Michigan’s outdated food stamp cards cost poor families $846K in stolen benefits

State hasn’t adopted chipped cards six months after fed’s suggestion - Scott McClallen

• Poor Michigan families had more than $846,856 stolen from them in fiscal year 2025 because the food stamp program in the state hasn’t updated its card technology from magnetic stripes to chips.
• This lax security protocol allows criminals to drain food stamp accounts, sometimes from halfway around the world...

The state health department hasn’t responded to multiple inquiries in the last three weeks about why it hasn’t upgraded its security via chipped cards or how much it would cost...