Here’s how SNAP fraud typically shows up: Lying on the application. People underreport income, overstate household size, or hide who’s living with them to qualify for more benefits. Selling benefits (“trafficking”). This is the big one. Someone trades their EBT balance to a store or another person, usually, getting maybe 50 cents on the dollar, in exchange for cash, alcohol, or other ineligible items. It’s illegal, and states actually do undercover stings for this. In practice, this means the go