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An Aid Program Too Often Neglected
When Telma Lopez could earn a modest living cleaning houses, she got along without food stamps. But now that she’s 64, suffers from chronic back pain and relies on Social Security disability benefits, “everything is too much money at the supermarket,” she told me. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as the federal food stamp program is now known, provides her with $189 a month, the maximum benefit for a single-person household. Bernice Warren applied for food stamps in 2010. “My money was short and I had bills to pay, and they really helped out,” recalled Ms. Warren, 82. Her benefit — $121 this month...Read More
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