Computer Glitch Shuts Down Food Stamp Program Saturday. Government As Usual

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Those of us who have served in the military or worked as Civil Service employees only know this too well. The system is down for maintenance. Computer Glitch Blamed For Nationwide EBT System Shutdown On Saturday « CBS Boston

Anyone who has worked on a government computer has seen these notices ; "The site will be down on Monday the 15th of October till the 23rd due to maintenance". This seems to be a constant with the federal government. You see, if you're expecting good service from the government you're not living in reality. If you want good service you need to go to a private company that depends on customer satisfaction to survive. With government it doesn't matter. They could care less if you have to wait a week to get something that normally takes a few minutes. After all, you aren't paying for it, right?

Fact is, we are paying for it, but all we get is piss-poor service and constant shutdowns. All I can say to all of the libs that never served your country, this is what you can expect, so get used to it dumbass.

“While the electronic benefits system is now up and running, beneficiaries in the 17 affected states continue to experience connectivity issues to access their benefits. Technical staff is addressing the issue and expect the system to be restored soon,” Wasmer said. “Beneficiaries requiring access to their benefits can work with their local retailers who can activate an emergency voucher system where available. We appreciate our clients’ patience while we work through this outage as quickly as possible.”

Wasmer said the affected states also included Alabama, California, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Courtney Rowe said the outage is not related to the government shutdown.

Shoppers left carts of groceries behind at a packed Market Basket grocery store in Biddeford, Maine, because they couldn’t get their benefits, said fellow shopper Barbara Colman, of Saco, Maine. The manager put up a sign saying the EBT system was not in use. Colman, who receives the benefits, called an 800 telephone line for the program and it said the EBT system was down due to maintenance, she said.

“That’s a problem. There are a lot of families who are not going to be able to feed children because the system is being maintenanced,” Colman said. She planned to reach out to local officials. “You don’t want children going hungry tonight because of stupidity,” she said.