"UC Santa Barbara has the highest participation rate in S.N.A.P. out of all UC campuses, according to fall 2019 data. Almost 3,000 students applied for benefits in the last year, out of 56,000 recipients in the entire Santa Barbara County (SBC), according to county data.
Skimming, when someone attaches illegitimate technology to card readers to copy Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) information, resulted in 700 cards being canceled in the month of January, SBC Public Information Officer Kelsey Buttitta told the Nexus. While the county could not specify how many, some of these accounts included UCSB students who received letters from the county stating that their information was at risk of being compromised."
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