Biden ignores fraud worries, pushes to allow online shopping for government-issued food benefits
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Biden's USDA is proposing to allow WIC food benefits to be bought online, which one expert said raises the prospect of higher fraud levels in the program.
The WIC program offers about $6 billion per year in grants to subsidize certain food purchases by low-income women who are pregnant or who have young children. For more than 20 years, WIC beneficiaries have had to use their vouchers in a store. Or if they have electronic benefits cards (EBT), they must appear in the store and enter a PIN to use the benefit. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
Jamie Hall, research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health and Welfare Policy, said that requirement is aimed at reducing fraud in the program, which has a fraud rate of 5-10%.