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Massachusetts General Court· S147Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

An Act to replace stolen benefits, the official text

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	Subsection (B) of Section 2 of chapter 18 of the General Laws, as so appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended after line 172 by inserting the following new paragraph:-
	(t). promptly replace the full amount of financial assistance or nutrition benefits stolen through electronic benefit transfer card skimming, card cloning or other fraudulent methods, including organized identity theft schemes, to the extent the federal government fails to provide  federal funds to replace stolen benefits, provided that the thefts have been reported to or identified by the Department in accordance with procedures for making and verifying replacement claims established by the department.
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