Survival food.. rice, beans, pasta, soup, flour, and milk. The poor shouldn’t be living high on the hog. They should be getting by, like I am...
Agreed.
Open gov’t stores with generic staples. If they are unemployed, they have time to make their sustenance from scratch.
Consider it ‘on the job training’.
And a cooking class. And a reminder that vegetable seeds and plants can be purchased using the card. My case worker informed me of that because when I applied for food stamps the only income I was bringing in was from jams, jellies, and other canned products I made.
It was basically harder to stop the benefit than it was to get it to begin with. At my last interview the amount was rolled way back, but they insisted I was entitled to them I should use them. I insisted I could now feed my family without help. when I got the next quarter's paperwork, I filled it all out and sent it in, accompanied by the cut in half card, which I had just completely stopped using - even though I knew there was well over $700 in accumulated benefits on it. I was never comfortable using it to begin with, it was really creepy them insisting I keep using it even when I was perfectly capable of fending for myself. At no time did ever "need" as much as they were allotting me each month.