I work with the poor and elderly. For reasons I haven’t yet investigated, a poor senior can expect between $10 and $15 dollars a month in foodstamps, while their able bodies children and grandchildren get $200 to $500 depending on dependents.
I have a disabled relative who receives $700 a month in SS benefits. This is to pay her mortgage, electric, phone, food, medicine, etc… She has no cable television. I thought she’d be a shoe in for food stamps.
Denied.
Because she (and the bank) own her rapidly deteriorating house. When she was well she got a 15 year mortgage and has paid quite a bit of it. But it has serious structural problems now because she can’t manage the upkeep.
Obviously, her state does not extend benefits to those with some assets. Seems a shame because her case seems like what this liberalizing of benefits ought to be targeting.
Re: the cooking advocate above. EXACTLY! Invariably the majority of people I see using foodstamps in the grocery store are seriously overweight and buying nukeit meals and Little Debbies. We’re paying for their diabetes and HTN treatment too.
