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New vendor transition shuts down [Florida] EBT services Monday
Bay News 9 ^ | September 15, 2013 | Jerry Hume

Posted on 09/15/2013 5:56:36 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative

It may be busier than usual at grocery stores today.

On Monday, food stamp recipients will not be able to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards.

The Florida Department of Children and Families is contracting with new vendor e-Funds to provide EBT services.

The switch is expected to save the state $21 million over the next three years.

But in order to make the final switch, EBT cards won’t work starting at midnight.

There is some misinformation out there about the switch.

Benefits for food stamp recipients will not change. Also, people will be able to use their EBT cards as soon as the transition is complete, which should be sometime Monday evening.

"I'm probably going to be frustrated and mad that I can't use it, but it's only for a few hours, until they update their system, I'll be OK, as long as it's only one day," said Cathy Astarita.

In the meantime, DCF is urging people to make their purchases Sunday to avoid frustrations Monday because this is a system-wide shutdown.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: ebt; welfare
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Ruh roh.
1 posted on 09/15/2013 5:56:36 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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The horror! Meanwhile, disabled veterans, the Greatest Generation and the working poor starve and go homeless.


2 posted on 09/15/2013 5:59:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
I will LOL if the system doesn't come back up for a week or six.

/johnny

3 posted on 09/15/2013 5:59:01 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

The rioting begins at 00.00.15.


4 posted on 09/15/2013 6:01:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Explains why my local WalMart was busy with a lot of non-whites/anglos early this AM.


5 posted on 09/15/2013 6:01:48 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (A person who does not want to tariff Communist Chinese goods has no problem with taxing you)
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To: JRandomFreeper

And while your laughing riots left and right will be breaking out! I can see the police putting in quite a bit of OT.

Thank God for guns, huh, johnny?


6 posted on 09/15/2013 6:01:49 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
Trial balloon -- how bad will the reaction be if we take away EBT cards for a few hours?

Next trial -- how bad will it be if they disappear for two days?

Next trial -- 1 week. How many troops need to be called up?

7 posted on 09/15/2013 6:03:25 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

“I’ll be OK, as long as it’s only one day,”

Imagine instead if also NO appliances worked. No ATM’s, no traffic signals, no telephone.

HOW not OK would she and her friends be?

Would their not ok-ness perhaps somehow effect you, too..?


8 posted on 09/15/2013 6:03:41 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SeminoleCounty

Is it nationwide? Because my Wal-Mart was wall-to-wall earlier today. Took me twice as long as it should have. Their carts, of course, were loaded to the gunwales.


9 posted on 09/15/2013 6:04:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

My wife works at a Wal Mart Super Store .....as a customer service rep....

I am going to suggest she call out tomorrow....

I wonder how many retail chain know this is happening....?


10 posted on 09/15/2013 6:05:17 PM PDT by Popman (Liberal wars are about killing people for humanitarian reasons...)
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This could be bad.. wait I live in Texas... this could be ... instructional.... and popcornish


11 posted on 09/15/2013 6:06:34 PM PDT by GeronL
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Funny...I just went shopping with my real cash and bought what I needed for the week...

I won’t need to be in a grocery type store for another week or longer...


12 posted on 09/15/2013 6:06:46 PM PDT by EBH (America is not judge, jury, and executioner for the world.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Me too.

13 posted on 09/15/2013 6:06:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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I can see the police putting in quite a bit of OT.

Cops avoid riots. Too dangerous.

/johnny

14 posted on 09/15/2013 6:07:05 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Travis McGee

EBT system crash? Heads up!


15 posted on 09/15/2013 6:07:29 PM PDT by Perseverando (It's ALL about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think it is nationwide, just Florida.

But...I did notice that either the store is understaffed and they are not restocking during the day...

Or they sold out of a lot of food stuffs over the weekend.

I thought it odd that a few items I needed were unavailable.


16 posted on 09/15/2013 6:08:52 PM PDT by EBH (America is not judge, jury, and executioner for the world.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

I was in Super Target this morning and it wasn’t that busy.


17 posted on 09/15/2013 6:09:32 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Crash the system permanently.


18 posted on 09/15/2013 6:15:11 PM PDT by lurk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t forget the kittens and the cute puppies that will have to be eaten because of the EBT shutdown!


19 posted on 09/15/2013 6:22:18 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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...I'll be OK, as long as it's only one day,"

Funny...I just went shopping with my real cash and bought what I needed for the week...

No kidding. So glad she's okay with our taxes taking a break from buying her groceries...and MORE, as long as it's only one day.

The irony would be if the system crashed, permanently. The reality is that it's likely a *reformed* system to detect ways to *assist* the takers with more all-new-and-efficient ways to take :(

20 posted on 09/15/2013 6:31:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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