Posted on 11/12/2012 11:50:23 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Benefit to fall $50 a month starting in January
Ohio families receiving food stamps could get an unwelcome surprise come January: $50 less every month in assistance.
For the 869,000 households enrolled in the program for the poorest Ohioans, that could amount to about $520 million annually out of the grocery budgets.
Because of the way the federal government calculates utility expenses for people receiving the benefit, a mild winter nationwide last year, and a lower price for natural gas, many families could experience a significant cut in aid, those familiar with the program say.
Recipients should get a letter from the state Department of Job and Family Services this month explaining the change, said Ben Johnson, a spokesman for the agency.
Meanwhile, food banks and others that distribute food assistance are bracing for increased demand.
They are going to increase hunger among our most vulnerable working families, seniors, children, and persons with disabilities, said Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks.
Ms. Hamler-Fugitt said her organization is particularly concerned that some seniors or persons with disabilities who have a low benefit amount could lose all their monthly assistance.
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Let them eat Obamaphones!
Another “we’ll tell them after the election” hit.
Just like Cuyahoga Co.
The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
Apparently the hand that feeds you is now biting back.
Oh, no, The One owns this one - it’s a Federal program. States have nothing to do with it.
You’re a better person that me. I want all the hungry dims to just get hungrier. NOT gonna give ‘em anything. Besides, my husband was told he might be laid off so I need to be taking care of my own right now.
SS and medicare will not get restructured....they will go bankrupt and cease to exist. This will be long after your 401k ad 403b accounts have been seized and converted to a defined benefit program.
You are a better person that I.
I have stopped giving to charity in every respect. No food to the food banks, not clothes to the goodwill no cash to the salvation army, united way, and any other campaign that seeks donations.
Zero. I am done with it. All the money I would have given to charity is now being spent on ammunition and other things to keep my family healthy and safe when the defecation hits the rotary oscillator.
That’s 1 in 5! 20%
Indeed. It's a shame we'll all suffer together.
Don’t understand your post.
Isn’t 20% “one in five” ?
Lisa Hammer-Fuhgetit ought to fork over her own money for the “most vulnerable”. 90% of the recipients are just lazy freeloaders, soaking what they can off the system.
I can’t remember how to post pictures—but if I could, I’d post Gomer Pyle from the Andy Griffith Show: “Surprise, surprise!” I hope I’m remembering that show right.
Who couldn’t see this coming?
I don’t wish harm on anyone, but I am sure that if they managed to get out and vote, they pulled the lever for our current President. It is a lesson to be learned for them.
bump
I will certainly vet my giving to the best of my ability, but simply because Obama is president is no reason for me not to maintain a generosity of spirit and an eye toward the welfare of the TRULY needy.
This is Ohio’s payback since he wouldn’t have won, but for his law suits and the voter fraud needed to secure the election for the truly enlightened in our midst.
...I has a sad.
Obama stabbed them in the back.
Just goes to show you can’t not never trust The Man.
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