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More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before
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Disregard the troll, Koffee. As for the subject at hand, there is no way you can buy a decent Thanksgiving meal on food stamps, unless you don't want to eat the rest of the month. Many organizations are giving out Thanksgiving Baskets, but their criteria to receive them is really getting strict. For example, in my community, the local agency who gives out the majority of the Thanksgiving Baskets, informed all the people receiving them this year, that unless they sign up for Energy Assistance this year, they wil not be eligible for a Thanksgiving Basket next year. In my community, all the slots for an appointment for Energy Assistance were filled within a few days, no more appointments are being taken. If you didn't get a "ticket" for an appointment within 2 days of them taking appointments, you cannot get one. I know of several people who's food stamps have been drastically cut, even though their income has not changed. It is going to get worse out there, as people will start to get more desperate.
Quoting: tiger1 We were told we couldn't have a THANKSGIVING basket because we didn't have children. They did however say we could have a Christmas one (hoping I won't need it by then, but we'll see). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27897299 In my community, having children is not the criteria for getting a Thanksgiving Basket. EVERYONE who is eligible by income gets one, up to the limit of baskets available. This one agency i mentioned, gave out 900 baskets.
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