Starting next week all households that receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will see an automatic reissuance of 15% of what they normally receive on their SNAP card. This will be on top of their normal allotment and is intended to cover the costs of food lost due to power outages after the October snowstorm.
For SNAP households that lost food valued more than 15% of their replacement SNAP, an additional request can be made to 2-1-1 before November 19th. Households will be asked to complete a loss of food request form, and the amount of the individual request must be based on the value of the food bought with SNAP by the household that was lost in the storm.
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