16th Annual EBT-The Next Generation

Final attendance for EBT-NextGen: 239 attendees. Close to out pre-show estimates of 250. We survived the government Shutdown,which threatened our attendance. If you were there you saw a great presentation on the shutdown by Andrea Gold of USDA's Food and Nutrition Service.

Contingency Planning for the Government Shutdown

We're now in Day 3 of the government shutdown. One of the issues foremost on the minds of advocates, EBT processors, and federal employees is what happens to nutrition programs, especially the EBT driven ones, as the shutdown continues.

USDA's Food and Nutrition Service has issued a lengthy memorandum from FNS Administrator Audrey Rowe to Under Secretary Kevin Concannon on the agency's contingency plans for operations. FNS' plans for the shutdown are described there in detail.

 http://www.usda.gov/documents/usda-fns-shutdown-plan.pdf.