A friend who is an employed teacher and the spouse who is an employed nurse went to the SNAP website and input their incomes... they were eligible for $25 a month in assistance!!
It seems to me that the threshold for need is pretty crazy if you can be gainfully employed and still qualify for assistance.
That’s quite a discrepancy from my state where a family of four is not going to see any SNAP benefits with a family income above the mid-30,000s.
In this area a teacher and nurse would be expected to have a combined income of over $100,000. No way would they qualify for SNAP.
I would go to the federal SNAP benefit calculator to verify that but, of course, it is closed lol.
Here in Washington state the cut off for Food Stamps is 2X the poverty level.
For one person no dependents, that's like $22,000.
Married couples are usually less than $44,000 total income because rent is split two ways.
Unless they have kids or disabled elders in the house, I'm not sure how they would qualify for any Food Stamps at all.