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He says he believes these payments were made in support of his work as a musician.

Shops and services can currently accept whichever form of payment they want.

Due to ill health he currently gets a PIP payment but if the changes come into force, he said he would face a significant cut.

The chaos has also hit stores, with some supermarkets shutting and local grocery stores switching to cash as card payments stopped working.

Queues formed at cash machines as card payments were affected by the outage, and there were reports that some petrol stations are closed.