Emergency Maintenance On EBT Applications: Possible Preparations For Nov 1st Cut-Off?

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Steve,



I work for a very large merchant services provider and got a notice in my

email last night regarding "Emergency maintenance on EBT applications"

affecting multiple states. I will be happy to send you the communication

directly. In effect, it stated that from 22:00 ET on 10/24/2013 until

06:30 ET on 10/25/13, ACS will be performing emergency maintenance on their

EBT applications. The following states could have a 1-5 minute

interruption in service:

Beginning 22:00 ET the applications for: (IA, IL, GA, VA, OH, MA, MD, ME,

MI, NJ) will be brought down and back up.

Beginning 23:00 ET the applications for: (AL, LA, MS, OK) will be brought

down and back up.

Beginning 05:00 ET the application for the state of PA will be brought down

and back up.

Beginning at 06:00 ET the application for the state of CA will be brought

down and back up.



**In this memo, ACS is an acronym for Authorization Capture System which

accepts transactions taking place at a Point-of-Sale by which an auth code

is generated; it looks very suspicious to me that this is taking place

after the recent so-called glitch, and further that there is ongoing talk

of a reduction beginning on Nov. 1st. My thoughts are that this is test

planning in action for the back-end systems... May God bless you Steve for

your work and may His Mercy and ever loving kindness be with us in the dark

days ahead...

Oct 25, 2013

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