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Texas' EBT System
The Lone Star Card
Largest EBT system in the country
- Serves nearly 2 million clients a month
- Processes over 6 million transactions a month
- Accepted at over 14,000 retailers
Current benefits programs delivered through Lone Star Card
- Food Stamps
- Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF)
Saves taxpayer dollars
- System statewide since 1995
- State and federal savings will be $126.6 million through year 2001
- Eliminated costs of printing, mailing, and processing paper food stamp coupons
Curbs fraud and abuse
- Allows detection of fraud
- Reduces number of fraudulent retailers participating in foo d stamp program
- A $1 million illegal food stamp ring was shut down in the first month EBT was in operation
- One fraud detection operation led to arrests of over 250 people
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