The Benefit Security Card is available in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee. To date, there are more than 41,000 active participants in the direct Federal Benefit Security Card program. To the extent applicable, a benefit recipient may have a card with both food stamp and cash benefits on it, or separate cards for each. The ETA is an account designed by Treasury to ensure that individuals receiving Federal benefit, wage, salary or retirement payments have access to an account at a reasonable cost and with the same consumer protections as other account holders at the same financial institution. The accounts are offered at low cost through Federally insured financial institutions.
ETAs allow recipients to receive their Federal payments and access their accounts electronically.