The Court Ordered the Money, But My EBT Machine's Support Line is Down

I run a small grocery. The court ordered SNAP benefits restored yesterday (Nov 7th). My customers flooded in today (Nov 8th), their cards finally loaded. But my EBT terminal is broken. It just says "Connection Error." I called the EBT technical support hotline. This system isn't run by the government; it's outsourced to a private contractor like Conduent or Xerox. I've been on hold for three hours, listening to automated music. Why? Because their federal contract payments are also frozen, and their call center is shut down. My customers have money. I have food. But the privatized, fragile "middle-man" system between us is broken. #EBT #SNAPInterrupted #Privatization #GovTech

2025-11-09

CLonginus

Judges don’t make laws and they also don’t get to substitute their opinions for the authority of the president. Better check into civics class. 🤣

11-09

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Robert Frost

"After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts."

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Pueblo, CO

Andrea Patterson

This actually annoys me. Hes complaining he can't get a hold of tax money. He has groceries and all. Hes as entitled as a lot of them!

30d

Bullhead City, AZ

Polly Peltz

imagine that

11-09

Springfield, MO

erockpine10

It is time for EVERYONE TO HEAR THIS: We have reached the point of our democracy’s complete failure- all three major signs are already there, and have occurred in failed democracies the world over. Paralysis of the system first, then power struggles due to malignant partisanism, then the erosion of faith in the system. So what do we do now? Here it is: ITS TIME TO WORK TOGETHER AND DEFEND YOUR SYSTEM, NOT YOUR SIDE. USE, or LOSE IT.

11-09

Midland, MI

mike julian

the US government and press should be embarrassed of their actions and then of the press printing literacy thousands of falsehoods concerning the situation i hope they can at least get something figured out ....after all to figure it out and make it work is the only requirement 9f any of their jobs lol and the job of press is to print actual true information as far as I see they are all just being negligent guess is what we have all been paying for our whole lives .....is sad

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Richfield, UT