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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by xfreed@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 
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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Food stamps are easy to get if you take the time to fill out the forms, and if you're qualified.

If you need help don't be afraid by fake horror stories like the above comment. There are people that are more than happy to help you get what you need it you ask.

The accounts per month are different for each state, but no one feeding a family is getting only $200. That comment is pure made up nonsense.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I really wish you weren't wrong. But using Calfresh if you're making 2929 with 5 people in the household you qualify. They then find 30 percent of that number. That's 878 Dollars, and they deduct it from the benefit. The benefit is 1155. You get 276 Dollars, or 55 Dollars per person.

For an entire month.

And god help you if that family is 2 adults, 2 kids, and an elderly person requiring care.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's also not supposed to be your entire food budget. It's a supplemental assistance. For most people it definitely helps get them through each month. Is $55 a person enough? No. But you can also get $300 a person per month. It's all in the circumstances and qualifications. No one gets a blanket amount.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lmao.

This is why we have people dying of malnutrition in the US.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Please explain. How does telling people to get help if they need it result in malnutrition deaths?

I feel like I'm missing a narrative here that you want to tell. Everything I've said is true from personal experience. So, please, go on, educate me on how anything I said was incorrect.

And also include how much assistance you've gotten so we all know what you're saying is factual.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lying about the extent of that help prevents us from actually helping them.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Legge@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What they're saying is that the assistance is so little that, even with it, people are still dying from malnutrition.

How? Because nearly everyone who is poor enough to qualify for food stamps doesn't have extra money to buy other food.

After rent, renter's insurance, internet, utilities, household toiletries, maybe a new (used) piece of clothing sometimes as things wear out, car insurance (bc good luck affording to live somewhere with any decent public transportation or having your work/home near enough to use it), car payment (because try saving up for even a used beater while being poor enough to qualify for food stamps), health insurance (even if the actual insurance is free from the marketplace, there are still copays, medicine costs, vaccinations, etc.), haircuts sometimes, etc. etc. etc. there's just no money left.

And this is assuming that people have time and energy to cook for their kids because food stamps doesn't cover fast food or prepared food. What it does cover is cheap food (and more expensive healthy food, but when money's tight, you buy the high calorie per dollar foods, not the $4 container of lettuce). This cheap, bad-for-you food is less nutritious. And now we're back at malnutrition.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

It's not meant to cover 100% of your food costs. But I'm just repeating myself.