People who receive food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), will notice a major and permanent increase starting in October.
Beginning this month, the average benefits for food stamps will grow over 25 percent above pre-pandemic levels, and the additional assistance will be “available indefinitely to all 42 million SNAP beneficiaries,” Fox 5 reported on Friday.
“The increase coincides with the end of a 15% boost in SNAP benefits that was ordered as a COVID-19 pandemic protection measure, which expired on Sept. 30,” the outlet said.
In August, President Joe Biden’s plans to advance government dependence continued as his administration said it would permanently increase food stamps by 25 percent, Breitbart News reported at the time.
“In practical terms, the average monthly per-person benefits for qualified recipients will rise from $121 to $157 — or $36 per person, per month,” the Fox article continued:
The increase is projected to cost an additional $20 billion per year but it doesn’t have to be approved by Congress. A farm law passed in 2018 by the then-Republican led Congress and signed by former President Donald Trump already directed the department to reassess the Thrifty Food Plan by 2022 and every five years thereafter.
It’s a wonderful thing that people who DON’T work (some, (many) who haven’t worked for several generations in their family) are getting some protection against the SKYROCKETING cost of groceries.
What have the goofball, slimy democrat, liberals done for the people who PAY their taxes (and the liberals salary) and still have to BUY their groceries???
NOT A F’ING THING.
Oh, wait…
They will RAISE OUR TAXES. That is how they will help us.
Which will make it much easier for us to buy said groceries.
REVOLUTION.
That is the ONLY way to stop these people.
Voting will not help. Read that again.
Protests won’t help.
Mean letters won’t help.
Hanging them all will help.
Tremendously.
Does this mean that Social Security recipients will get a 25% raise too? I didn’t think so. No wonder no one wants to work anymore. The pay is so much better not to. Keep a liplock on the public spigot and you get everything you need, and then some.
Just keep giving freebies to all the baby daddies and baby mamas and they will never have an incentive to work. I bet if they got none of all the free stuff that we, the tax payers, pay for, they would work or starve. Our wonderful government is never going to let that happen. That’s why we have a country full of welfareites that never worked a day in their lives and never will.