According to the state Department of Transitional Services, the outage occurred due to a technology error at the vendor that distributes EBT cards.
The outage prevented anyone from using the cards for about an hour, according to a spokesman.
The outage had nothing to do with the federal government shutdown, they said.
It is not known how many people tried to use their card during the outage.
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