COLORADO ISSUES FOOD STAMPS BY ACCIDENT
The state welfare agency issued almost $1 million in March food stamp benefits to unqualified residents. It's the first time anything like this has happened, but the problem has been corrected, Department of Human Services spokesman Dwight Eisnach said Friday. The department will now ask as many as 5,800 low-income people to repay the state. "We realize these are low-income families," Eisnach said. "It may be difficult."
The error occurred in late February as the state agency was updating its databases and preparing computers for Y2K, Eisnach said.
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REMEMBER THIS IS NEW JERSEY???????
NJ SEEKS TO RECOVER FROM Y2K GLITCH
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A Y2K computer glitch gave New Jersey welfare
recipients millions of dollars in food assistance nearly two weeks early. It's the so-called millennium bug's most widespread effect on the public so far, one expert said ... The error ''made the benefits available as of APRIL 1, 1990, instead of APRIL 1, 1999,'' making next month's benefits available immediately, Rogan said.
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THEN THE NEXT DAY ... March 24
RENTON, N.J. (AP) - A computer glitch that caused $23 million in food stamps to be given out prematurely in New Jersey was not connected to Y2K millennium bug problems as first suspected, computer experts say. [Attributed to human error.]
Cheryl
P.S. So far, it looks like Y2K's benefiting food stamp recipients.
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