The Mississippi Department of Human Services is encouraging benefit recipients to download the ConnectEBT app, which allows users to lock and unlock their benefits card before and after each purchase.
The agency said theft can happen at any time and promoted locking benefits as a way to help protect them.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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