EBT system failure blocks food stamp debit cards

WLS - Chicago ^ | October 12, 2013 | By Eric Horng

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Full carts abandoned at Chicago grocery stores were a common sight as shoppers in Illinois and many other states have been unable to use their food stamp debit cards.

More than two million people in Illinois use a so-called Link Card. That's one in six residents in the state. So when suddenly the system went down Saturday morning many customers just walked out of the store.

"Now I'm going to have to unfortunately do the fast food thing now. No cooking tonight," said Link Card user Rob Lee.

"That's how people starve," said shopper Sean Wright. "People starve if they don't have the Link to feed their children, to feed their family with."

[itssme]

In the sanctuary state of Illinois, the illegal aliens are just overloading the pantries in the northern suburbs for instance. The American citizen elderly, the disabled and unemployed are unnumbered.

[Girlene]

Sad.