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 ...
May?? you can believe it's gonna happen!
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-32.htm
Check out verse 31!
It isn’t like it’s the first time this has happened. There have been several occassions where the EBT system was down over the past few years, though I don’t know how widespread each instance was. But more than once, I’ve gone into the grocery store and seen signs on the door notifying people the system was temporarily down.
The nice thing was I was able to get in and out much quicker than normal because it wasn’t busy. :-)
Bye bye free American pie
Drove my Caddie to the Aldies but mah card was done dry....
Here’s another thread on this subject:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3078119/posts
Many great posts.
Walmart just made an announcement on the intercom that EBT for the state of Georgia is down...there are now full carts Left everywhere #awk 2:40 PM - 12 Oct 2013
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
Are you talking about the Cherokee Nation in NE Oklahoma?
From Urban Dictionary:
“Gibs-Me-Dat” (Ebonics) (n.) 1. Annuities, in the form of goods, services, or material (usually welfare checks) given predominately to blacks, in exchange for their tacit agreement to reciprocate by not burning down America’s cities.
Example:
“Yo Trayvon, who you be votin' fo'?”
“I gots to go wit Obama, baby. The democrats be givin out moe betta gibsmedat.”
2. (n) One who accepts said annuities.
Synonymous with: tribute, baksheesh, Danegeld, reparations
This is a test run for mid Nov. Egypt Morsi trials. When legally Hussein gets joined at the hip with AQ and MB
This can happen to everyone. We are now a cashless society. If you tried to rob a Walmart I doubt you’d get a thousand dollars.
Only thing I heard on the news early this morning was that it was just small neighborhood stores - Shop & Rob’s and 7-11’s?- that were down, system worked at major stores. Not sure if that was true.
I had the same thought.
Nothing on Fox and no mention from the Savannah CBS affiliate’s 11 PM news.
It was clearly marked, but somebody had to test it.
ROFLMAO!!
I’m sure some creative FReeper here could write up a whole bunch of lyrics to that tune!
Why would xerox test their backups on Saturday morningwhen shopping peaks?????
Thanks for the link!
CBS’s Adriana Diaz reported that EBTshoppers had to put their groceries back on the shelf. The reality is that shoppers almost never put the groceries back when their card of choice does not work for whatever reason. I hope it is not too harsh to point out the extreme unlikelyhood of EBT shoppers returning their baskets of groceries to the shelves once they realize the cards would not pay. in addition to the EBT shoppers not being able to buy their groceries, today there is an extreme likelihood that enormous amounts of perishable frozen foods and meats found their way to the grocery store dumpster, more so than usual.
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