Credit card skimmers are draining food benefits: Here's how to protect yourself

You swipe your card, grab your groceries, and head home. Nothing seems out of the ordinary, until you check your balance and realize your food benefits have vanished. Across the country, a wave of credit card skimming is targeting Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. By exploiting older technology and installing nearly undetectable devices at local bodegas and grocery stores, criminals are…