The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services says scheduled maintenance will make “some EBT transactions” unavailable from 11 p.m. on Thursday, January 23 until 2 am. on Friday, January 24.

Pennsylvania’s EBT public assistance cards were once a state-of-the-art leap from paper food stamps. But that was a long time ago. “It happened in 1998, and as I understand it, there haven’t ...