Food stamp benefits to increase by more than 25% in October

Associated Press ^ | August 16, 2021 | Ashraf Khalil and Josh Boak

[Olog-hai]

President Joe Biden’s administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food aid available to needy families — the largest single increase in the program’s history.

Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps — officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — will rise more than 25 percent above pre-pandemic levels. The increased assistance will be available indefinitely to all 42 million SNAP beneficiaries.

The increase coincides with the end of a 15 percent boost in SNAP benefits that was ordered as a pandemic protection measure. That benefit expires at the end of September.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that with the change, the U.S. “will do a better job of providing healthy food for low-income families.”

The aid boost is being packaged a major revision to the USDA’s Thrifty Food Plan, which estimates the cost to purchase groceries for a family of four and guides the way the government calculates benefits. In practical terms, the average monthly per-person benefits for qualified recipients will rise from $121 to $157.

The increase is projected to cost an additional $20 billion per year, but it won’t have to be approved by Congress. A farm law passed in 2018 by the then-GOP led Congress and signed by former President Donald Trump already directed the department to reassess the Thrifty Food Plan. …

[SaveFerris]

The next economic crash will spectacularly-bad I believe

💥💥💥

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps — officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — will rise more than 25 percent above pre-pandemic levels.

Those of us who don't get food stamps won't be getting any 25% raises in salary, and Biden's inflation is driving food prices up for us.

[SaveFerris]

Will be

Oops

[cherry]

missed a lot of stimulus....prop taxes up....SS stays the same...fuel up...food up....no food stamps...no free bus pass...no free health care...no rent free living....having worked over 45 long yrs.

sumting wong...

[cherry]

missed a lot of stimulus....prop taxes up....SS stays the same...fuel up...food up....no food stamps...no free bus pass...no free health care...no rent free living....having worked over 45 long yrs.

sumting wong...

[libertasbella]

If it’s any consolation, the Democrats already have a plan in place for the inevitable: blame racism.

[GaryCrow]

Great, more welfare for the layabout crowd. Just what we need.

[napscoordinator]

A dollar a day and Biden is getting accolades for this? The media sucks!

[kalee]

To quote a Clayton county welfare mama “somebody have to pay for these children.”

[metmom]

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that with the change, the U.S. “will do a better job of providing healthy food for low-income families.”

Unadulterated BS.

I’ve lived (unfortunately) in welfare towns and seen what people buy with their free government money aka EBT/food stamp cards and eating healthy is NOT on their radar.

Not even close.

[Bikkuri]

Waiting on the bread lines... 5 months, 1 year?

[Olog-hai]

So have I, and I remember when they were paper “food coupons” that could be “exchanged” for money or other “items” on the black market.

[Laslo Fripp]

Love the strike-thru!

[Olog-hai]

The “news” media is as bad with that “former” with respect to Trump as they are with the supremacist capitalization of “Black”.

[SaveFerris]

It’s their pathetic attempt to distract from Afghanistan for a moment

[SaveFerris]

Aaaaaaaaaaaand.......

Global Warming!!!

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[central_va]

[mewzilla]

Work Harder Millions on Welfare Depend on You!

[Olog-hai]

Relative of Trigglypuff?