WASHINGTON, April 13, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) revealed that low-income California homeowners in 7 counties (Kern, Mariposa, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Tulare, and Tuolumne) recuperating from the effect of serious storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides that started on February 21, 2023, might be qualified for an assisting hand from the USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP).
Farming Secretary Tom Vilsack stated that roughly 4,000 families that might not typically be qualified under routine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) guidelines might receive D-SNAP– if they satisfy particular requirements, consisting of the catastrophe earnings limitations and have certifying disaster-related expenditures.
“As California homeowners recuperate from the serious storms and its after-effects, this approval of D-SNAP is important in guaranteeing they get the food they require,” Vilsack stated.
To be qualified for D-SNAP, a home should either live or operate in a determined hot spot, have actually been impacted by the catastrophe, and fulfill specific D-SNAP eligibility requirements. Qualified homes will get one month of advantages– equivalent to the optimum regular monthly quantity for a SNAP home of their size– that they can utilize to acquire groceries at SNAP-authorized shops or from choose merchants online to satisfy their short-term food requires as they kick back home following the catastrophe. California will run its D-SNAP application procedure for 7 non-consecutive days starting April 17, 2023, through April 25, 2023