Welfare payments and food stamps are supposedly easier to recieve with a new state-issued electronic card, but a spat between two banking giants has kept many ATMs off-limits.
The city’s child welfare agency says more than 300 workers in the system don’t pass muster, the union says it’s just a case of union-busting.
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