Posted on 07/14/2018 10:18:44 AM PDT by spintreebob
Most SNAP recipients spend ... early it increases food insecurity.
39% spend 2/3 of monthly benefit in the first 4 days. 14% of GA households are food insecure. Over 1.6 million (16%) utilized $2.54b in SNAP in GA.
Few statistically significant differences explain why spending patterns are so different.
We hoped we would be able to find something that said the ‘patient’ people do this and ‘impatient’ people do that, but we did not, Dorfman said. I guess it comes down to personality.
Many households are connected to SNAP through local food banks and caseworkers at state agencies, DFCS, Camardelle said. “These organizations play a huge role in advising and guiding SNAP participants on when and how to use their SNAP dollars so they can stretch them over the full month, said Camardelle, noting the need for more of these resources.
In 2017, SNAP-Ed, the nutrition education arm of DFCS, operated at 820 locations in 77 of Georgia’s 159 counties through partnerships with four organizations. (This includes most of the metro Atlanta area.) That year, 137,336 participants, or about 8% of total SNAP recipients in the state, were reached. According to data from DFCS, program participants were 19% more likely to not run out of food before month’s end after the intervention.
In Georgia, SNAP recipients receive on average, $1.40 per meal per person, Camardelle said. Research from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in 2016 found that raising the monthly SNAP benefit by $30 per person per month improves the likelihood of stretching groceries throughout the full month and purchasing more nutritious foods.
SNAP-Ed is the nutrition arm of the Food Stamp Program.
policymakers should be less concerned about when people spend and more concerned about how little they have to spend.
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My ALDI here in Florida has milk for $2.49/gallon.
Nothing like folks high on the mountain doing studies about the real little folk. Many SNAP and Food Stamp recipients (the legitimate ones) don’t have terrific, or any cars. The grocery stores aren’t in their neighborhoods. They take public transportation out to a nearby suburb to a grocery store on the bus route once a month to do grocery shopping.
That’s about the same for me locally - Aldi or WM.
Now I DID see cheap milk at Costco - they allowed a free walk-around to consider a membership. This was before it hit ($65 is it now?).
In Texas, the Aldi had whole milk for $1.89/gal. Even $1.69 one week when they were overstocked. But that was 5 years ago.
“they’d sell their stamps for .50 on the dollar.”
In West Baltimore, diabetes test strips are currency.
Sorry about the math error, try:
Maybe put 25% on day 1 of the month, 25% on day 8 of the month, 25% on day 15 of the month and the last 25% on day 22 of the month.
“Now I DID see cheap milk at Costco”
Costco here in my part of Florida had milk at I believe $2.49 too, but I didn’t want to put in a standing order for milk with my neighbor who has a membership since I don’t normally drink a lot of milk.
“I don’t agree. I’ve looked at some of their prices. I didn’t find much I couldn’t beat elsewhere without a club price.”
Yep. Gas savings more than pay for our membership and where else can you get a four year warranty on a TV for no extra charge. One of our Samsung’s failed last year and we got a full refund of original price. Bought essentially same tv and pocketed several hundred dollars due to lower price.
” Saw a sign in the window that they accept EBT cards and that was the end of that. Never went back.”
Why?
So do some Americans. As for illegals, are we really surprised, if what you’re saying is actually true? After all, they already broke the law to get here.
Agree 100%. Some states are putting into place work/welfare rules. Been very successful from what I've read.
“Jars of strawberry preserves”
Strawberries with about four types of sweeteners to enable strawberries to be listed as the main ingredient but only be about 25% of the product.
That’s Senator Warren’s consumer protection agency at Obama level work.
That worked out well for ya. Having had a TV fail, it definitely would have worked for me (thanks Target!). I could ALMOST justify the gas / membership thing.
I purposely AVOID Target now. For multiple reasons.
The only other TV that failed was a GE but even it lasted several years. Now my JVC TV died - after 19 years of service. But this was a White-Westinghouse. It has now been repaired by a couple of local guys. The guy said he put in a much better part than the original (hey who doesn’t say that but I’ll choose to believe him for now, lol).
Their milk prices were pretty good at the time.
solution, EBT/SNAP recipients need to file every month an itemized list of what they purchased.
1. Give it to the IRS to handle without having to have to hire anybody to get the ball rolling and plan in place.
2. When it’s time to hire, hire some of the more reliable EBT/SNAP recipients.
It’s good stuff! ;)
Homemade bread is way fresher than what the nearest town grocer sells. It’s a chain store (HEB - mainly TX) but gets the seconds. Bent dusty canned goods, moldy produce, almost never gets in the circular sales products, refuses coupons (not that the local paper has coupons), no bakery or deli and the “fresh” regular shelf bread is shipped in frozen. Milk? Ha, if you have two gallons in your buggy someone will beg for one of them because the store didn’t get it’s milk shipment or forgot to order it.
I’ve posted before of the empty shelves. Venezuela has nothing on us.
Once, they had a sale on frozen catfish pieces. After several angry calls, I was told to come in right away and “the guy” would meet me at the back. It was like a drug deal. All hush hush and don’t let the other customers see. “The guy” tried to just give me a pound but, as you know, I have a freezer to fill so made him give me a whole box. Even the cashier and the bag boy commented they didn’t know they had any fish.
The meat department is about the size of a couple of computer desks so they only bring out 3-4 packages of each cut. That’s another reason customers just throw meat into their carts willy nilly without looking at the price. It’s either grab it first or you’re out of luck. Once, there was a sale on London broil and they had to go to the back only to bring out one steak swearing that’s all they had.
They have what’s called a “meal deal” in their weekly ads where you buy item X and get like 3 other items free. Of course, they usually don’t have all the items. On a Mexican meal once, they used the usual excuse of “the truck didn’t deliver” the tortillas. I knew the game so asked when the truck would deliver them. Was told the next day. Yeah, and I’m supposed to drive back in for tortillas (as with most things, I make homemade ones). Ok, so how many will be on the truck? They said 4. Uh huh, would that be 4 cases or 4 eight count packages? Yep, just as I suspected, 4 eight count packages. See, Venezuela.
“Now my JVC TV died - after 19 years of service. But this was a White-Westinghouse. It has now been repaired by a couple of local guys.”
As cheap as tv’s are today wouldn’t it have been reasonable to upgrade instead of repairing?
Yeah, I’m sure I’m not getting top-shelf with a lot of my picks, LOL.
I also like their big packages of cookies. Now these are NOT premium, LOL. BUT $1.39 at the closest grocery store. It’s probably 80-90 sandwich cremes. Lemon, peanut butter, etc.
LOL. Cheap food. Yeah, I know. It ain’t grand. But it will do. Occasionally the brand names are on a good deal.
“Homemade bread is way fresher than what the nearest town grocer sells. “
I often have to wait at publix for the bread to cool enough to be sliced.
Yep...
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