Balance

A text message interface for people to check their EBT card balance for SNAP and other human service benefits

Currently unavailable. This project is no longer maintained.

• California
• Texas
• Pennsylvania
• Alaska
• Virginia
• Oklahoma
• North Carolina

What it is

This is a simple Ruby app built on Twilio that creates a text message interface for people to check their food stamp EBT card balance (and cash balance for other programs).

The original idea was by @lippytak with influence from @alanjosephwilliams's experience on Code for America's health project ideas repo.

This is a project of CFA's Health Lab Team.

Running tests

Because we use .env for testing, you'll want to run your tests by running:

foreman run bundle exec rspec spec

Twilio Console

The twilio_console.rb file just gets you a quick Ruby prompt with Twilio clients pre-loaded. This is useful for doing manual responses to users. To use this, you will need to set the environment variables specified in that file.

Copyright & License

Copyright Code for America Labs, 2014 — MIT License