 Our state is dealing with what officials are calling an alarming surge in food stamp scams. Washington State Department of Social and Health Services says residents getting food assistance through electronic benefit transfer or EBT have lost a combined total of $5.5 million to scammers in the past two years. Officials say those scammers are stealing people's card information by putting skimming devices on retailers' card swiping machines. Now the state is trying to reimburse people who have lost money