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Something was very wrong with Jackie Kirks’ food stamp card. While standing at the checkout line in a cavernous Albertsons grocery store in Long Beach, California, in December, Kirks was told that she didn’t have enough money in her account to pay for food. “That’s impossible,” she told the cashier. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Kirks, 70, knew that she had saved up a sizable sum in monthly benefits from the federal food assistance program, also known as the Suppleme