{"id":298907,"date":"2026-07-17T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298907\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:22:25","slug":"new-york-state-upgrading-ebt-cards-with-chip-technology-to-protect-snap-benefits-from-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298907\/","title":{"rendered":"New York state upgrading EBT cards with chip technology to protect SNAP benefits from theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK STATE \u2014 New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-new-chip-based-benefit-cards-snap-recipients-be-issued-early-2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will issue about two million new chip-enabled EBT cards<\/a> for SNAP recipients beginning early next year to help prevent benefit theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new cards will use chip technology to make it harder for thieves to steal account information through skimming devices. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the upgrade is aimed at protecting those most vulnerable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are committed to protecting New Yorkers from benefit theft and modernizing our EBT system is the most effective tool we have to prevent heartless criminals from preying on some of our most vulnerable residents,\u201d\u00a0Governor Hochul said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retailers are advised to update payment devices by December 1 to accept the new tap-to-pay cards. The funding for this transition was included in Gov. Hochul\u2019s 2027 budget. <\/p>\n<p>Other states doing the same (according to the USDA)California: EBT chip cards issuedOklahoma: EBT chip cards issued Alabama: EBT chip cards issued Michigan: EBT chip cards issued Maryland: EBT chip cards issued New Jersey: EBT chip cards issued Massachusetts: EBT chip cards issued Oregon: EBT chip card project in progress Virginia: EBT chip card project in progress Arkansas: EBT chip card project in progress<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/snap-benefits\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNAP benefits<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/governor-kathy-hochul\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Kathy Hochul<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK STATE \u2014 New York will issue about two million new chip-enabled EBT cards for SNAP recipients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[895,9,11,10,49,51,50,12825],"class_list":["post-298907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-governor-kathy-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-snap-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}