Saturday, October 12, 2013

PANIC! Glitch Shuts Down Welfare Debit Card System Nationwide...

People in Ohio, Michigan and 15 other states found themselves unable to use their food stamp debit-style (EBT) cards on Saturday, after a routine test of backup systems by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. - CBS Boston

The federal EBT website was unavailable due to the government shutdown.

U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Courtney Rowe underscored that the outage is not related to the government shutdown. - AP

EBT card failures cause ‘complete chaos’ at Walmart stores - Twitchy





‘Riot time!’: Food stamp users in near-panic over EBT card failures - Twitchy

Hundreds of reports on Twitter from many parts of the country indicate that Electronics Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards (the electronic version of food stamps) are not working this afternoon.





EBT shutdown ‘glitch’ doesn’t bode well for Obamacare’s future - Twitchy