Huh, thought I posted this already, but I guess I forgot to.
I’ve been on food stamps before. Basically, I said that my parents ranted and complained about “other people” scamming the system and not deserving the welfare, but I did. They also were shocked at how little I actually got each month, because they assumed you were supposed to get a lot more money.
They also were shocked at how little I actually got each month, because they assumed you were supposed to get a lot more money.
You get something like $300 a month maximum, and that is if you are making $0 anywhere else. As soon as you get any type of income it plummets to $50, which is hardly even worth the hoops they make you jump through.
I just checked my State’s rules. [0] The maximum benefit is given by the “thrifty” food plan, which is cheaper than the USDA’s “low cost” food plan.
For a 20 year old woman, that is $242.30 a month. From there, you compute 30% of your net monthly income, and subtract it from your SNAP allotment.
If the result is too low, this provision kicks in:
Except during an initial month, all eligible one and two-person households will receive a minimum monthly allotment of $16, and all eligible households with three or more members which are entitled to $1, $3, or $5 allotments will receive allotments of $2, $4, or $6, respectively.
That’s the weird thing about conservatives. For all their complaining about how the government doesn’t work, they seem to vastly overestimate how much the government does and its competence.
They only know what their chosen talking heads tell them, and Fox is allowed to legally lie about the news, or at least they are hardly ever called out for it.
I applied for food stamps when i was in college. I was financially independent (kicked out at 17), was working two part jobs to make ends meet, and met the requirements. When my dad found out about the food stamps he lost his mind and tried to sell me on this whole “ask family” bullshit when he was the one that cut me off and always had strings attached to his help. So yeah i took the food stamps. It sure hurt his pride that someone in our family would be on food stamps. But fuck pride, i needed to eat.
Huh, thought I posted this already, but I guess I forgot to.
I’ve been on food stamps before. Basically, I said that my parents ranted and complained about “other people” scamming the system and not deserving the welfare, but I did. They also were shocked at how little I actually got each month, because they assumed you were supposed to get a lot more money.
You get something like $300 a month maximum, and that is if you are making $0 anywhere else. As soon as you get any type of income it plummets to $50, which is hardly even worth the hoops they make you jump through.
I just checked my State’s rules. [0] The maximum benefit is given by the “thrifty” food plan, which is cheaper than the USDA’s “low cost” food plan.
For a 20 year old woman, that is $242.30 a month. From there, you compute 30% of your net monthly income, and subtract it from your SNAP allotment.
If the result is too low, this provision kicks in:
Truly a golden ticket. /s
[0] https://dhs.maryland.gov/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program/food-supplement-program-manual/ (section 409)
[1] https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/Cost_Of_Food_Thrifty_Food_Plan_January_2024.pdf
https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/usda-food-plans-cost-food-monthly-reports
Wow! You could buy a whole single bread with all that cash.
$50 in groceries equates to about 4 meals nowadays in my area if you are ok with not eating meat.
ALL these government programs ignore inflation, and food costs have skyrocketed above inflation.
When I had a job making $7.35 an hour at a dollar store and applied for food stamps in NC, I got $16.00 a month.
That’s the weird thing about conservatives. For all their complaining about how the government doesn’t work, they seem to vastly overestimate how much the government does and its competence.
They only know what their chosen talking heads tell them, and Fox is allowed to legally lie about the news, or at least they are hardly ever called out for it.
I applied for food stamps when i was in college. I was financially independent (kicked out at 17), was working two part jobs to make ends meet, and met the requirements. When my dad found out about the food stamps he lost his mind and tried to sell me on this whole “ask family” bullshit when he was the one that cut me off and always had strings attached to his help. So yeah i took the food stamps. It sure hurt his pride that someone in our family would be on food stamps. But fuck pride, i needed to eat.