Outages ‘frequent’ issue for electronic food stamps

At a subcommittee hearing on 21st century enhancements for the food stamp system, an official from one of the largest electronic payment processors in the world said “large numbers” of recipients “on a fairly frequent basis” suffer network failures when they try to buy food. A USDA spokesman said “outages are rare, and are usually… » Read More

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