Posted on 10/12/2013 7:47:56 PM PDT by Travis McGee
People in 17 states, including Maryland and Virginia, who tried to buy groceries using electronic food-stamp cards were turned away from supermarkets Saturday as a result of a computer outage.
The system failure affected low-income individuals and families who receive food benefits through the SNAP and WIC programs.
The outage occurred during a “routine test” of backup systems Saturday morning, Jennifer Wasmer, a spokeswoman for Xerox, which administers the program, said. By late Saturday, access had been restored.
After the system failed, SNAP and WIC beneficiaries in the affected states were unable to buy food using electronic benefit transfers.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
To big to fail....LOL!
Walmart executives are most likely freaking out about now. The lost of sales must be astounding.
Don’t fix it and eliminate food stamps!!!
I resent having to pay taxes to feed someone!
Dey’s gone hafta eat their Obamafoams!
Bring it!
Of course, that is easy for me to say, since I purposely moved to an area optimal for survival...
The govt is out of money (Not true but for this comment, okay).
I’m out of money. Been on furlough since Oct. 1. No EBT, no WIC (I’m a little too old for that), no free cheese, no Obama flying in or driving in to console me, no Joe Biden offering me free hair plugs; No Al Sharpton protesting that I’m not getting “nothin’”.
Just got a $1,000 medical bill. Who’s gonna pay for it, “Ghostbusters”?
As they say in the old country, Obama has “spread the pain around”. Next time you won’t vote for a damned commie, or the Demonrats, your plantation slavemasters.
You should have stayed in school. Might have learned something.
See you in the unemployment line and at the unemployment office. But I’ve got an education and work skills. All you’ve got is an Obamaphone with dead batteries.
Now we have equality and I bet you don’t like it.
What can you expect when the HNIC hires ACORN to program and operate EDP systems.
This is a test...
For the next sixty (or thirty) days, this bureaucracy will conduct a test of the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) System. This is only a test.
This is a test of the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) System. The bureaucrats in your area in voluntary cooperation with Pres. Obama, the Dept. of Homeland Security, the NSA, the Dept of Health and Human Services and other federal, state and local authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an EBT or SNAP outage or emergency.
If this had been an actual EBT or SNAP outage or emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news, or instructions.
This station serves the (name of operational area). This concludes this test of the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) System.
Mark Lindsay weeps...
Global? I thought it was just 17 states.
Yes, the Cherokee nation in Oklahoma card (WIC) is no longer accepted in Arkansas Walmarts.
My first thoughts too.
Gauging the time needed to round up them Tea Partiers, those Bitter Clingers and Patriots before commander zero's civilian defense force starts redistributin'
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