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“SNAP is everything,” Saro told Military.com. “Without SNAP, we would go hungry. We would not eat. We would not have food on the table. The boys would not have what they need.”

“I try not to let the boys see the struggle,” Saro said. “They lost their mother. I want them to focus on school. I want their lives to feel normal.”

would someone please help this guy out.

Why? He is lying or just plain stupid. VA disability payments are NOT affected by shutdown. If what he says is true his disability rating would be either 100% or totally and permanently disabled which pays at 100%. That should be around $3.5K per month tax free. If he is neither of those there is more to this story than is being told. If he cannot work why is me not on SS disability. Also not affected by the shutdown. Get an attorney and eventually they agree and that is another $3.5K per month. If not on disability, again, there is more to the story or he is lying. National Guard and Reserve do not factor into this unless they are support staff on active duty. Their military pay is a few hundred per month and in terms of income is their secondary income not primary and if they are on SNAP it has nothing to do with being veterans. Locally the cost of living is low and there is an excess in base housing so they generally do not rate SNAP benefits anyway. High tax high cost Blue states maybe.

Since 9-11 and wide spread support for the military everyone who ever served regardless of the character of their service is a veteran especially for the freebies. Many get upset when asked for their ID or DD 214 to get the freebies. Not everyone who served is a veteran depending on character of service. Local business advertises as owned by a veteran as a vet I could care less if a business is vet owned. I know a lot of vets I won’t hire. Also kind of dumb in a military town with thousands of retirees and over 10,000 active duty. Occasionally I use VA medical. Nothing is more irritating then listening to to someone yelling I am a vet I deserve better service. Why? Why do you rate more than the other 50 people waiting with you. Yea I am jaded on this subject.

Sounds like he needs to give up one of his trucks.

He should be getting around 4k/month tax-free from Gov. Then there’s housing and assistance. I know TBIs also qualify for Special Military Compensation pay which is another grand or two per month. Then 300 for the boys.

If his kids don’t have food it’s likely because he doesn’t want to buy it, cook it, they don’t want to eat it, and don’t want the school food. They probably only do Applebees delivery or similar for ‘food’.