The Electronic Benefit Transfer system has malfunctioned across the country Saturday morning.
According to our crews, a local retail store announced over the intercom that the EBT card system was malfunctioning.
The local retail store later announced that the system was back up and running.
An official with the Department of Human Services told us that the problem has to do with a systems update on the retailers end.
The EBT system is an electronic system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card.
