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Originally Posted by fishfighter
I just got an alert from katc stating that the STORES will be held responsible for the over charges on the FOOD STAMP cards, now that aint right, the low lifes should be held accountable
The Louisiana Department of Child and Family Services says no tax dollars were lost this weekend when the system that processes food stamp charges went off line.
According to Trey Williams with DCFS, emergency procedures were in place to prevent unauthorized state funds from being spent. Williams says stores that accept EBT payments were supposed to call Xerox, the contractor who administers the EBT program in Louisiana, to receive an authorization number for purchase over $50.
Some stores, Williams says, did not follow that procedure and saved the transactions until Xerox fixed the glitch in the EBT system. According to Williams, the stores that saved the purchases instead of calling for an authorization number will receive only the amount of money available on the EBT cards used in their stores. Any purchases that went over an available balance, he says, will have to be covered by those stores.
Williams says the state is looking at the contract with Xerox to see if any terms were breeched during the outage.
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Wal mart should pick up the tab. They were notified something was wrong and they said go with it. Instead of denying the cards until it was up and running again. Wal mart was looking to make a load on the tax payers dollar and could've given 2 ****s. Matter of fact when they were back online a woman got caught charging $700 on her car when in reality her balance was $.49 police asked if wal mart wanted to press charges and they said nahhh. **** em all. Wal mart is just as much to blame as the wild animals that tore their stores up. I mean as soon as the shopping spree was over they left baskets full of **** for someone else to pick up and put away.