The whole situation is odd.
Why would they call your husband to verify a food stamp application? Did the person use your phone number (possibly new since you moved), did they use your new address as well?
Place a consumer alert on your credit reports.
I am more concerned someone has your husbands name phone number and Social Security Number (and whatever else you or your husband provided them over the phone).
Don’t bother with the police, it sounds more as if someone was phishing for information over the phone.
I don’t believe this was an ACORN-type individual. She gave my husband his own information, not the other way around. She advised him to contact the Jupiter police.
Maybe when the worker saw that the address given was in Jupiter, it raised a flag for her to look into the residence. Maybe she saw that it was in a lovely golf-course planned community, she then wondered hmmm... food stamps? Maybe she then searched for the value of the home at the address provided, and confirmed her initial red flag.
Granted, we owned probably the most basic of homes in a community of homes that easily were double the worth of ours, but I doubt anyone living where we did needed food stamps. She could have gone to the tax assessor website and looked at the history of owners, and would have seen at least 7 yrs of names different from ours. One White Pages search of dh’s name and she would have seen our current home number.