$29 per week is the AVERAGE amount of Food Stamps collected.
It is adjusted according to your income and your expenses.
In Washington state, a single person with no income gets $194 per month.
That’s $44.77 per week, or, $6.40 per day.
If someone has access to a refrigerator and a place to cook food, you can gain weight on $6.40 per day - and that does not include food from free kitchens and food banks.
In Washington state, a single person is actually eligible for $16 per month in Food Stamps if his annual gross income is below $23,340.
That equals a full time job at $11.22 per hour.
And, just to keep all this in perspective, people living in Seattle’s poorest neighborhoods are 4 to 8 times more likely to be obese than people living in Seattle’s wealthiest neighborhoods.
I knew of someone with 7 kids who was getting 1200. Ain’t buying the 29 dollar myth.
I’ve posted before that I can make five 6-7” homemade Schlotzsky sandwiches (homemade sourdough bun and the fixin’s) for the price of one restaurant bought. That would come right about that $6.40 SNAP. You’d gain weight eating that much a day.
Today, I had a glass of milk for breakfast and semi-homemade enchiladas for lunch and dinner so would have change left from that %6.40.