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SNAP EBT Cards Offline
The Electronic Benefits Transfer system was down. EBT is a system for issuing welfare payments electronically by means of a payment card that recipients use to make purchases. The issue causing many people headaches is statewide and in multiple other states, but at Findlay Market, vendors say there was no warning about the outage and they had to turn away customers that didn't have cash. One vendor says that half of his business comes from people who use EBT and today, he had to be the bearer of bad news that the system was down. "Terrible, this is probably my record worst Sunday I've had in the three years I've owned the place," Roth Product owner Dario Guintini said. "Since the EBT was down, folks realized they can't get their meals for Sunday dinner or dinners throughout the week." He says a lot of his customers rely on him to carry EBT. "Didn't get an email or call which you think someone would," Guintini said. "I even called my merchant supplier and they didn't even know it was down." Many people have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the outage. One woman said she had to buy food for her seven kids and she was turned away at Walmart because EBT is down. Officials say that Ohio's EBT vendor, Conduit INC, had an outage Sunday and EBT service was restored midafternoon.
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