This article reports a portion of survey results gleaned from a convenience sample of 200 seniors with limited incomes. It highlights how Food Stamp Program participants differ from or are similar to eligible nonparticipants in perception of food security, participation in local or federal food...
New Hampshire’s Food Stamp Program— officially called SNAP, provides eligible individuals and households with monthly benefits used to purchase food items at grocery stores, supermarkets or other participating food retailers. The program serves low-income families with children, seniors, people with di...
The 20-year-old program helps low-income seniors by allowing their facilities to pool food-stamp benefits and purchase food on their behalf, with the lawmakers noting that this helps disabled and elderly residents who otherwise couldn't get to grocery stores. Facilities in states ranging from Ala...
Savings and investment accounts are considered assets, or resources that count toward the total allowed for food stamp eligibility. The $2,000 limit, or $3,000 for seniors or disabled people, is the household limit. Therefore, it applies to all savings and investment accounts owned by people ...
As a result older adults and seniors could see their monthly SNAP benefits cut to just $23 on average as the pandemic SNAP/food stamp EA benefits are phased-out. $40 Summer EBT Grocery Benefit for Kids (from 2024) While SNAP emergency allotments were not extended, a new program was (per...
Mayors across the U.S. are warning the Trump administration that its plan to push more than 3 million people out of the federal food-stamp program will harm children, seniors and other vulnerable people, as well as damage local economies. ...
In response to McCarthy’s plan, Democrats on the House Committee on Appropriations say the bill will hurt families, seniors and workers with its host of proposed cuts. Moody’s concludes that under the legislation nondefense discretionary spending could fall to its lowest levels since ...
…More changes to the food-stamp program may lie ahead. The new rules were published a day after the House Committee on Agriculture released a report* calling for major changes to the program, which Republicans on the committee say discourages recipients from finding better-paid work. ...
and the ladies who ran it told me that they wished they received more toilet paper and basic toiletries like toothpaste. She said that many of the people who used the food pantry were also on Food Stamp programs, and those programs do not allow for people to buy toilet paper or any non...
I taught the classes at Conley-Guerrero Senior Center, a community gathering place for senior citizens in east Austin. Thirty-six seniors attended the classes over four weeks and many of them came to all four classes. At first I wasn’t sure if this group, with so many diverse life ...