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I wasn't thinking of charges, I meant the way they could be doubling their income if they figured out a way to collect two sets of benefits in her name.
Crossing state lines might be enough. There are probably some checks at the Federal level but @cvaldez1975 is right -- more likely little chance of a charge; possibly one state or the other would try to "recover" the mis-applied benefit, by reducing the SNAP Benefit (food stamp) amount by $5 a month until the amount is recovered.
Worked at Social Services in my state in the early '90's, was assigned to a temporary Recovery Task Force. When we identified this kind of double-dipping or something similar, both cases were passed to a supervisor, then coded in the computer, system generated letters went to the benefit recipient with hearing request info & the like. The system-generated letters were from the prosecuting attorney's office, our names weren't connected to the public side at all. This is what I remember, anyway, that was quite a while back!
Could be worth the risk for some people....
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