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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sat Nov 2, 2013, 10:06 AM Nov 2013

Oct29: The Coming Food Stamp Cut Will Hit 900,000 Veterans

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/29/2850751/food-stamps-cut-veterans/

The Coming Food Stamp Cut Will Hit 900,000 Veterans
By Bryce Covert
on October 29, 2013 at 9:00 am

Benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, will automatically drop come Friday thanks to the loss of additional funds from the 2009 stimulus bill. That cut will hit about 900,000 of the country’s veterans, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

“Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011,” CBPP writes. The number varies state to state, with over 100,000 veterans in households that rely on the benefits in Florida and Texas each.

The coming cut will range from $36 a month for a family of four to $11 a month for a single person. Food stamps will average less than $1.40 per person per meal next year with the cut. Benefits were already sparse, at just $133 a month on average.

Veterans can face a lot of challenges finding work when they return from service. While overall the unemployment rate for veterans is 6.5 percent, those who have served since 2001 to the present have an unemployment rate of 9.7 percent. Nearly one in 10 veterans with disabilities were without employment in 2010. They are also disproportionately likely to live in poverty and to be homeless. In 2010, nearly a million veterans ages 18 to 64 had experienced poverty over the past year. As of 2011, nearly one in seven homeless adults was a veteran and more than four in ten homeless veterans were without shelter. They are therefore heavily impacted by cuts to the social safety net.

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Oct29: The Coming Food Stamp Cut Will Hit 900,000 Veterans (Original Post) unhappycamper Nov 2013 OP

that needs to get out more! gopiscrap Nov 2013 #1

Reublicon chickenhawks screw America's honorable veterans Berlum Nov 2013 #2

i learned of this yesterday on a facebook link 90-percent Nov 2013 #3

gopiscrap

(24,179 posts)

1. that needs to get out more!

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Sat Nov 2, 2013, 10:07 AM

Nov 2013

Berlum

(7,044 posts)

2. Reublicon chickenhawks screw America's honorable veterans

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2013, 10:18 AM

Nov 2013

as usual

90-percent

(6,904 posts)

3. i learned of this yesterday on a facebook link

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2013, 02:28 PM

Nov 2013

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/10/29/nearly-1-million-vets-face-food-stamps-cut.html?fb_action_ids=10201134546949717&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=.UnJC37B-aIB.like&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

Here was my Facebook Response:

Support Our Troops.

Thanks for your service.

You were getting too fat anyway.

Those stupid young patriots that put their lives and well being on the line when their country asked really blew it. Just because you served does not mean your country has any obligation what so ever to reciprocate when you come home perhaps partially broken and permanently changed.

"So what? They volunteered." - Dick Cheney

Our troops were not competent enough to find the WMD's Saddam cleverly hid. Mission not accomplished! Maybe if they had done a better job we would coddle them more by supplementing their selfish need for nutrition.

Plus they tortured people over there and killed lots of civilians. At least their suicide rate is abnormally high so that will lessen our burden to keep them fed, clothed and sheltered.

And none of them ever thanked America for all those yellow Support the Troops ribbons. We all did our part, especially going shopping. It's too bad they weren't capable of doing theirs!

DISCLAIMER: The preceding contains snark, lots of snark, and does not necessarily reflect the author's actual opinion.

-90% Jimmy

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