Frustrations continue to mount over a program meant to help get healthy food to people who can’t afford it.

On top of a nationwide outage of the system that administers food stamps, some people in the SNAP benefits program were scammed.

A brief nationwide SNAP benefit outage Sunday is just the latest problem to plague the EBT card and SNAP benefit programs that the Tennessee Department of Human Services administers.

The state said again Monday that it’s aware of a sudden increase in reports of EBT card fraud as a result of card skimming.

The state says they’re working with federal partners and law enforcement authorities to see whether or not the state is allowed to reissue stolen benefits.