Food Stamps: Military Families Redeem $100 Million A Year In SNAP Benefits (Iraq, drugs)
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Military families are on a pace this year to redeem more than $100 million in food aid on military bases.
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I read the welfare threads here and realize that people don't have a clue about who uses welfare....or why. They do love to make it sound like people want to be on it. Just like all those soldiers above. They suck, right? They're on welfare, too, bro.
What I don't understand why some enlisted military people need it. Between your base pay and your BAH, why would people even qualify for it? Someone stationed in Southern California for example gets roughly $1600 in BAH plus their paycheck. In the Boston area is an extra $2200! (which is more than enough to rent an apartment. )
What I don't understand why some enlisted military people need it. Between your base pay and your BAH, why would people even qualify for it? Someone stationed in Southern California for example gets roughly $1600 in BAH plus their paycheck. In the Boston area is an extra $2200! (which is more than enough to rent an apartment. )
I don't know how it is now, but way back in the Paleozoic Era, when I was still in the Army, it was mostly junior enlisted with at least two kids that were qualifying for that kind of assistance. I knew a couple of guys at E4 and below with *four* kids each, and I always wondered how they made ends meet.
I did know one E7 who went from two kids straight to FIVE in one swoop (wife had triplets), but with more rank and more years of service, clearly they wouldn't have had it as tight as a PFC with a whole platoon of younguns would.
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When I was an E-4 back in '96, we qualified for WiC and, if I recall, food stamps. Had 1 kid. Wife didn't work. Think I made $888 a paycheck back then. Our son had to drink a predigested formula. If I recall, it was 160 bucks a month for that formula.
Here's the WiC chart; See for yourself Income Eligibility Guidelines - WIC
PS, my wife wouldn't let me get the food stamps. She just said we weren't going to get them, and that was final. I guess it was a matter of pride. WiC was for our kid, though. Maybe that was why that was OK with her.
They don't count housing allowance in the formula for income if the solider and family live on base, only if the BAH is shown on the LES. They should. I think any housing supplement, military and civilian, ought to count to include section 8. We do not get an accurate portrait of poverty in this nation because we don't count these non-cash things as part of available assets. A family earning $1,000 a month and having to pay rent from that $1,000 is in much worse shape that a family that earns $900 and lives rent free.
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First, BAH is only considered if you live off base.. The Federal Government sets the standards for food stamp programs and they say that if a military family lives on base in military housing - BAH cannot count against them as far as income because the family never sees this money. If the military member lives off base it is a different story - the BAH is paid to the military member and is then considered income since they are in actual possession of the money.
Military families are on a pace this year to redeem more than $100 million in food aid on military bases.
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I read the welfare threads here and realize that people don't have a clue about who uses welfare....or why. They do love to make it sound like people want to be on it. Just like all those soldiers above. They suck, right? They're on welfare, too, bro.
This thread is wreaks of ignorance. At least these people "earn" it. Ask me who I would rather give to. A dead beat who sits on the porch or does drugs or a family who is serving in the military.
Damn, welfare leaches will go to any extent to defend leeching of others.
This thread is wreaks of ignorance. At least these people "earn" it. Ask me who I would rather give to. A dead beat who sits on the porch or does drugs or a family who is serving in the military.
Damn, welfare leaches will go to any extent to defend leeching of others.
Hey..don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm defending you here.
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