BOSTON - Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is ordering the state to implement chip-enabled EBT cards in an effort to boost security in the Bay State’s SNAP program.

The rollout follows fraud investigations and whistleblower claims of weak oversight in Massachusetts’ benefits system.

In a push to keep food benefits out of thieves’ hands and in residents’ kitchens, Governor Maura Healey has ordered the state ...

The Healey-Driscoll Administration has started notifying Massachusetts retailers to prepare for this upcoming change by updating their Point-of-Sale (POS) system to accept the new chip and/or tap EBT ...

Massachusetts is adopting chip-and-pin-enabled Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards to curb theft across the system, ...