EBT card system fails nationwide as feds probe social reaction to food stamp cut-off

Tuesday, September 29, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: Daniel Barker
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

On September 16, a problem with the SNAP EBT (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit Transfer) system was reported by thousands of people in several states.

The outage prompted some interesting theories about why people were suddenly unable to use their EBT to buy groceries, with some suggesting it was part of a government plot to gauge reactions from the public.

Alternative news site AllNewsPipeline.com picked up the story:

Thousands of reports flooded the Down Detector website last night of SNAP/EBT card outages from people who were unable to get access to food or other goods and while there were reports that this was a nationwide outage, ANP has currently only been able to verify outages in several different states though it made for much commotion last night. Interestingly enough, one of the states suffering the outages was Pennsylvania with a number of reports coming in from the Philadelphia area. Illinois and part of Maryland were also confirmed as having suffered at least partial outages.

The article referred to an earlier story posted on the site on August 29 that reported on a similar incident while predicting it was a precursor to a major outage in September. Some of the commentators called the August outage a “BETA test” leading up to the “real” event, which hasn’t materialized yet. There are some compelling questions being raised about the simultaneous “technical glitches” also experienced by international banking giant HSBC, which prevented hundreds of thousands of people from receiving payments on the holiday weekend:

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