{"id":308585,"date":"2026-06-16T00:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:17:16","slug":"cbs-miami-investigates-south-florida-man-loses-2800-in-snap-benefits-fraud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308585\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Miami Investigates: South Florida man loses $2,800 in SNAP benefits fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Food stamp fraud is costing taxpayers billions each year, and one South Florida man is the latest victim after losing over $2,800 from his SNAP account to thieves spending in another state. CBS News Miami\u2019s Steve Maugeri investigates how easy it is for scammers to drain EBT cards, why getting those funds back is so difficult in Florida, and what protections recipients can use to protect their benefits.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food stamp fraud is costing taxpayers billions each year, and one South Florida man is the latest victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-308585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}