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People in Mississippi and 16 other states were temporarily unable to use their food stamp debit-style cards Saturday after vendor Xerox Corp. ran a routine test of backup systems that resulted in a system failure.

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Causes, Effects of EBT Glitch Probed

An apparent computer glitch resulted in mass confusion across a large swath of the country when people discovered their electronic benefits transfer did not work over the weekend.

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