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Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Highlights - October 2004


Food Stamp EBT Systems - total 54

Operational food stamp EBT systems use either on-line, magnetic stripe cards or off-line, microprocessor chip cards. (The count includes the on-line system in Puerto Rico for the block-grant Nutrition Assistance Program.) 

  • On-line Systems-52: Forty-eight States, the District of Columbia, Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico have on-line food stamp EBT systems.

  • Off-line Systems-2: Two states have off-line food stamp EBT systems:

Ohio - FSP Statewide, WIC pilot only
Wyoming - FSP Statewide; WIC Statewide
  • Reprocurements
State RFP Issue Date Status
Massachusetts Dec-03 Selected ACS
Minnesota Aug-04 Released RFP
New Jersey Sept-03 Selected ACS
NCS (NY, CT, NH, RI, VT) Aug-04 RFP released
Ohio Aug-04 RFP released

  • Conversions (scheduled within the next 6 months)

Kentucky Nov. 13, 2004

 

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