{"id":12861,"date":"2025-10-23T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12861\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:20:09","slug":"pennsylvania-dhs-warns-of-snap-benefits-scam-calls-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12861\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania DHS warns of SNAP benefits scam calls, texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services is warning SNAP recipients that there is an active scam that aims to target their benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the department, recipients have been receiving calls from the numbers listed below, with the caller claiming the person\u2019s benefits are on hold until they verify their eligibility by providing their PIN.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news, weather forecasts and sports stories delivered straight to your inbox! Sign up for our <a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.wearecentralpa.com\/join\/6sd\/signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">newsletters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a scam, with the DHS adding that it would never ask for personal information in an unsolicited text message, email or phone call. Anyone who has received a scam call or text is asked to report it to the department\u2019s fraud tip line at 1-844-347-8477.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtaj.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WTAJ - www.wtaj.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WTAJ &#8211; www.wtaj.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services is warning SNAP recipients that there is an active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9907,28,5714,30,29],"class_list":["post-12861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-active-scam","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-human-services","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}