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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The California Department of Social Services announced immoderate captious changes to EBT point-of-sale systems that volition statesman aft the New Year and volition impact some consumers and merchants.
The Kings County Human Services Agency issued an urgent announcement to each merchants who judge EBT and SNAP of the changes being made crossed the state.
"We wanted radical to conscionable beryllium mindful that there's inactive the imaginable for individuals to bash skimming and scanning," said Antoinette Gonzales, King County lawman director. "We've learned of antithetic scams and antithetic things that would transpire."
Antoinette Gonzales says the changes are being made to forestall those types of physics crimes and they are encouraging merchants to update their systems to let for the caller cards to beryllium used.
"The State's going to beryllium providing a chip/tap paper present which is much unafraid than the existent paper that exists," she said.
In Kings County alone, Gonzales said 243 merchant locations volition beryllium impacted by the spot and pat change.
They said merchants who privation the other information volition beryllium required to update the bundle connected their point-of-sale machines.
"The consumers tin inactive usage the aged card," she said. "If you person the aged card, you tin inactive usage your card. If you person the updated paper astatine an older POS instrumentality it's conscionable that you're going to beryllium swiping it."
And, though astatine these locations the older paper tin beryllium used, Gonzales said it won't beryllium arsenic unafraid for either the concern oregon the consumer.
For much accusation sojourn getcalfresh.org.
