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Kinda funny, in other threads Conservatives bash people on food stamps for eating poorly. Apparently they cant win either way.
It's quite clear that many of them think that the poor shouldn't eat at all, nor should they exhibit any overt signs of starvation that might disturb their sensibilities (if they in fact have any)
It's quite clear that many of them think that the poor shouldn't eat at all, nor should they exhibit any overt signs of starvation that might disturb their sensibilities (if they in fact have any)
I am married with 3 kids and my husband makes 300 a week. The state approved us for $79 a month. When I was single with 2 kids I was getting $526 a month..I don't understand and I was making more than him when I was single. Can somebody please explain this to me?
I am married with 3 kids and my husband makes 300 a week. The state approved us for $79 a month. When I was single with 2 kids I was getting $526 a month..I don't understand and I was making more than him when I was single. Can somebody please explain this to me?
I am married with 3 kids and my husband makes 300 a week. The state approved us for $79 a month. When I was single with 2 kids I was getting $526 a month..I don't understand and I was making more than him when I was single. Can somebody please explain this to me?
that's awful they did the same thing with me and my husband and we have a child!!!
In Texas they take into account how much your housing costs are and if you have large medical bills. You are allowed to
have assets up to a limit depending on your age etc. It does get involved. They will asked about all this and enter it and viola...an amount for food stamps appears! Normally for folks with an income similar to mine would get $16 a month, she told me but after she did the calculation it came out to $72. A few months after I qualified my rent went up
$77 a month and I reported it to them and my SNAP benefits went up to $95. So expenses do count! At least here in TX anyway.
......single female. ..........$219/wk from unemployment. ........ only awarded $35/mo in food stamps. ........,
Welfare benefits are mostly for children. You don't have any children. You are unemployed, but no children to care for, so my best suggestion is to go out and find a job that pays more than unemployment. Then you can buy your own groceries.
Food stamps are a supplement. They aren't intended to pay 100% of an upper middle class diet. However, you can actually eat on $35 a month. It will be boring as heck and not all that tasty, but you could do it.
No, really you could if you had to. I can buy a 25 pound sack of brown rice for $12. That's plenty for a month for one person, 3 meals a day. But you don't have to live on just rice, because a 25 pound sack of beans is $17. That leaves you extra for spices and salt, and a couple of onions. Buy chili powder and curry powder and you get to enjoy 2 different national cuisines. Rice and beans together make a fairly well balance diet. One person would not be able to finish off 50 pounds of rice and beans in a month. You would not make it halfway through those bags.
Next month, you could buy a 25 pound sack of lentils ($20) and maybe a box of ramin ($8), and still have money left over for some new spices and a couple more onions.
Not a fun diet, but it would keep you alive. Just be careful that you don't gain weight eating that way, and at some point, you'd have to save up enough on the groceries to put together the money for a big bottle of vitamin pills.
Getting rid of the car payment and insurance will have no impact on your food stamps. The amount you get in food stamps is based on your income, plus how much you pay for rent and utilities. They don't care if you have a car payment or not.
Riiiiii-iiiight-the idea is to improve her overall budget so she has less money going out the door.
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