Interducing The New Chip EBT Card

Urgent Retailer Notice for California and Oklahoma SNAP EBT Retailers

In the Summer of 2024, California and Oklahoma will begin issuing new SNAP EBT cards with Chip and Tap technology.

SNAP retailers must be equipped to accept SNAP EBT chip card payment.
Though strongly encouraged, SNAP retailers are not required to accept Tap EBT payment at this time.

Chip and Tap transactions still require cardholder PIN entry at the point-of-sale.

EBT fraud, including using card skimming to steal benefits, is on the rise.
Introducing SNAP EBT chip cards is an important step to ensure that SNAP benefits are protected.
SNAP EBT chip cards are harder to copy and make it harder to steal SNAP account information.
SNAP EBT chip cards are a more secure payment option meant to protect SNAP retailers and SNAP participants from the devastating impact of stolen SNAP benefits.

Accepting SNAP EBT chipcards can protect SNAP benefits while securing your SNAP customer base.
SNAP participants want to know their SNAP benefits are safe when shopping at your store.
SNAP participants may not want to use their SNAP EBT card at stores without a chip payment option.

Contact Your Point-of-Sale (POS) Service Provider TODAY to ensure that your POS system will allow SNAP EBT chip cards to “fallback” to magnetic stripe transactions until SNAP EBT chip cards are supported (i.e. ECL capabilities are turned on in case the AID- A0000000044542 is unsupported).
Request that your POS system be updated to support SNAP EBT chip cards.
Tell your POS Provider that the SNAP EBT chip cards will use:
Standard EMV chips
Both contact-only and dual-interface
New EBT Application Identifier (AID): A0000000044542
220 service code on Track II of the magstripe
Further details for your POS service provider to follow will be coming soon
For Help: If your POS service provider needs more information about supporting SNAP EBT chip cards, tell them to contact www.ebtapplication.com/chipcard