Posted on 09/19/2014 2:21:45 PM PDT by dynachrome
Shop now if you depend on food stamps or cash assistance from New York.
Neither will work starting early Sunday morning. The system will go down at midnight and isn't expected to come back online until noon Sunday.
It's being shut down so the state can switch to a new company to run the program. It will take at least 12 hours to do the switch. Medicaid benefits are on the same card, but they will not be affected by the change.
Nearly a third of the city's residents rely on food stamps, according to U.S. Census data.
Toni Maxwell, a spokeswoman for Catholic Charities of Onondaga County, said her concern is that the switch won't go smoothly and will end up taking longer than expected.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
So some fat, urban beyotch can’t get a cart full of food at Wal-mart at 2 in the morning??? Boo-hoo.
I wish your reply had a like button.
Well, nothing on the news, so the EBT crowd must be ok. I would like to see how a weeks outage would go. I have some popcorn stocked up.
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