This week, senators introduced what they're calling the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act, which would make the supermarket staple an eligible purchase under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
You’re thinking of WIC, not SNAP. It’s only for pregnant women and kids under a certain age to make sure they have the bare minimum of nutritional needs met. And yeah, it comes with a ton of rules and limits. They’ve slightly modernized it, but you used to have to use checks that had the items listed and you had to buy it all at once or miss out for the month. There’s a booklet that lists the item, with brands and sizes, that can be used. No substitutions or exceptions. And if something is miscoded, oh well.
The items are 2% milk or soy milk, peanut butter, whole wheat bread/tortillas, canned fish, low sugar cereal, fruit juice and like $10 worth of fresh fruits and veggies.
It can be life saving, but I remember the entire program being really demeaning and too difficult to utilize.
You’re thinking of WIC, not SNAP. It’s only for pregnant women and kids under a certain age to make sure they have the bare minimum of nutritional needs met. And yeah, it comes with a ton of rules and limits. They’ve slightly modernized it, but you used to have to use checks that had the items listed and you had to buy it all at once or miss out for the month. There’s a booklet that lists the item, with brands and sizes, that can be used. No substitutions or exceptions. And if something is miscoded, oh well. The items are 2% milk or soy milk, peanut butter, whole wheat bread/tortillas, canned fish, low sugar cereal, fruit juice and like $10 worth of fresh fruits and veggies. It can be life saving, but I remember the entire program being really demeaning and too difficult to utilize.
It kinda sounds like someone took the old food stamps system and just combined the entire fucken booklet into one cheque. Why?