The USDA since February has made 127 arrests related to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fraud, a USDA spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email. The USDA worked with its Office of Inspector General on the cases.
Those cases resulted in 63 convictions and fines and fees exceeding $16.5 million.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who earlier in November said that dozens of arrests had taken place, stated during an appearance on NewsNation on Wednesday that federal officials, reviewing data provided by 29 states, found that there were 180,000 deceased individuals receiving food stamps and another 500,000 people receiving twice as much as they should have been receiving.
Rollins stressed that the other 21 states have not provided information to the USDA.
