The new block grant program differed significantly from the former Food Stamp program in three major ways.[17] First, the new NAP program was designed to distribute the benefits through physical cheques, ensuring that the benefit would be payable only to the beneficiary while at the same time reducing administrative costs,[5] since the former physical vouchers (cupones in Spanish) were subject to storage and accountability problems, theft, counterfeiting and even trafficking.[5][3] Second, the benefits were no longer restricted to vouchers redeemable only for food, but were provided in cash.