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Food Stamps Can Fill the Gap
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Food Stamps Can Fill the GapWhy should food stamps be a priority for your food pantry? Food pantry directors across Los Angeles have identified two major barriers to providing adequate hunger relief for their clients: 1) lack of funding for expansion and 2) donations insuffiecient to meet the needs of ever increasing lines of clients. At the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, we realize that we can never meet 100% of the nutritional needs of our community. Luckily, the Food Stamp Program is in place to help fill this need. This severely underutilized resource can begin to alleviate the needs of eligible clients by providing them with free benefits to assist them in keeping their families fed.. What exactly are food stamps? The Food Stamp Program is a federally-funded program that helps low-income people buy the food they need for good health. For most households, food stamps are only part of their food budget (benefits average $80/person monthly). In addition, food stamps can supplement families whose with nutritional needs exceed the capabilities of your pantry, such as households with special dietary needs. What can you buy with food stamps? You can buy: 1) all food for human consumption; 2) seeds and plants to grow food for household use. Who is eligible for food stamps? Your clients may be able to get food stamps if they have a low, or no income and: Work full or part-time. Are unemployed. Receive welfare or other assistance. Are elderly or disabled. A  re homeless.
Do not receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI). What do food stamps look like? No more paper stamps! EBT, which stands for Electronic Benefit Transfer, is the new way clients will receive food stamps and/or cash benefits. Instead of waiting for food stamps or checks to come in the mail or going to pick them up at a public assistance office, benefits are electronically put into a special account set up just for clients. To buy food or other items with the benefits in this account, they will use at the grocery store their Golden State Advantage Card (above), commonly called an EBT card, similar to a credit or debit card. Directory: oldsite oldsite -> Contents Foreword Executive Summary How to respond The proposals and consultation questions What will happen next? The Consultation Criteria annex a: List of Consultees Foreword oldsite -> Categories appearing in this document oldsite -> The Vázquez Collection of Historical String Instruments The Violin Family oldsite -> Owner’s manual oldsite -> Lax to parker boiler co. Factory oldsite -> International laser class association North american region oldsite -> Only a radical change in forest policy can guarantee attainment of the Millennium Development Goals oldsite -> Vickers barrow motor club 2008 yearbook windscreen stickers and leather key rings oldsite -> 1932 Chassis issued 10. 11. 32. Car despatched ex-works to Lillie Hall, Fulham on 21. 12. 32 as an “enclosed drive” and long-wheel-base, signifying a saloon body to be fitted. The designated body-builder was Georges Gangloff Download 2.18 Mb. Share with your friends:
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