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The card is expected to be in the mail in the next few weeks.

New York State stepped in to keep the app from shutting down, for now.

For the next 30 days, Farmers Markets will be able to process EBT payments. But there's no long term plan after that

Federal law mandates that all states create meaningful welfare reforms before February 2014, or face a 5% cut in funding.

Last year NYC residents received $3.4 billion in food stamp benefits as well as $2.9 billion in supplemental security income and $1.4 billion in public assistance.

A 65-year-old convenience store worker in New Hampshire is in the national spotlight after she was fired for refusing to let a welfare recipient use his government-issued EBT debit card to buy cigarettes.

With more people than ever on food stamps, job centers are turning into major fire hazards.

The amount of money distributed through the EBT program is up 133% this year, compared with when the recession began in 2007.