http://food-stamp-office.com Provides Assistance all over the US Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:39:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://food-stamp-office.com/1665/fact-checking-gingrichs-food-stamps-claims/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1665/fact-checking-gingrichs-food-stamps-claims/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:39:21 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1665/fact-checking-gingrichs-food-stamps-claims/ Food stamps is the latest program to be targeted by Newt Gingrich, but the 2012 candidate’s assertions about the program aren’t quite correct. Speaking in Iowa on Wednesday, the former Speaker railed against food stamps, one of the federal government’s assistance programs to help low-income…

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1665/fact-checking-gingrichs-food-stamps-claims/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1662/when-the-formerly-rich-need-help-buying-food/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1662/when-the-formerly-rich-need-help-buying-food/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:48:25 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1662/when-the-formerly-rich-need-help-buying-food/ Presidential candidates have been sounding off about millionaires on food stamps, but the reality is harsher. Even in high-income zip codes, the formerly well off are having to turn to food stamps to put food on the table. That’s according to two new surveys of food insecurity and income.

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1662/when-the-formerly-rich-need-help-buying-food/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1663/new-jersey%e2%80%99s-wealthiest-county-leads-rise-in-residents-using-food-stamps/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1663/new-jersey%e2%80%99s-wealthiest-county-leads-rise-in-residents-using-food-stamps/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:15:22 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1663/new-jersey%e2%80%99s-wealthiest-county-leads-rise-in-residents-using-food-stamps/ New Jersey’s Hunterdon County, the hilly region of horse farms and weekend retreats where last year’s median household income was almost $100,000, is a surprising new face of federal food aid.

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1663/new-jersey%e2%80%99s-wealthiest-county-leads-rise-in-residents-using-food-stamps/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1664/many-eligible-seniors-decline-food-stamps/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1664/many-eligible-seniors-decline-food-stamps/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:37:05 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1664/many-eligible-seniors-decline-food-stamps/ Thousands of seniors sign up for food assistance but thousands of others don’t want it.

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1664/many-eligible-seniors-decline-food-stamps/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1656/g-o-p-bill-would-block-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-for-millionaires/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1656/g-o-p-bill-would-block-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-for-millionaires/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:13:57 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1656/g-o-p-bill-would-block-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-for-millionaires/ Under a Republican bill scheduled to be voted on as early as Tuesday, Americans with income over $1 million would no longer be eligible for food stamps or jobless pay.

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1656/g-o-p-bill-would-block-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-for-millionaires/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1657/gop-finally-stands-up-for-the-99-by-slashing-food-stamps-for-the-1/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1657/gop-finally-stands-up-for-the-99-by-slashing-food-stamps-for-the-1/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:48:02 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1657/gop-finally-stands-up-for-the-99-by-slashing-food-stamps-for-the-1/ Forget the “Welfare Queens” of the 1980s, the GOP has a new scapegoat of government excess: Welfare Millionaires.Related: The Remaining Sticking Points on a Payroll Tax Deal

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1657/gop-finally-stands-up-for-the-99-by-slashing-food-stamps-for-the-1/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1655/food-stamps-san-diego-explained/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1655/food-stamps-san-diego-explained/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:56:55 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1655/food-stamps-san-diego-explained/ A video explainer on how the food stamps program is doing in San Diego.

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1655/food-stamps-san-diego-explained/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1654/millionaires-on-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-g-o-p-is-on-it/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1654/millionaires-on-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-g-o-p-is-on-it/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:34:12 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1654/millionaires-on-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-g-o-p-is-on-it/ WASHINGTON — It’s an image many Americans would find rather upsetting: a recently laid-off millionaire, luxuriating next to the pool eating grapes bought with food stamps while waiting for an unemployment check to roll in.

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1654/millionaires-on-food-stamps-and-jobless-pay-g-o-p-is-on-it/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1653/texas-mom-who-shot-kids-self-denied-food-stamps/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1653/texas-mom-who-shot-kids-self-denied-food-stamps/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:28:11 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1653/texas-mom-who-shot-kids-self-denied-food-stamps/ A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and held a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said Tuesday.

]]> http://food-stamp-office.com/1653/texas-mom-who-shot-kids-self-denied-food-stamps/feed/ 0 http://food-stamp-office.com/1651/46-million-on-food-stamps-up-two-thirds/ http://food-stamp-office.com/1651/46-million-on-food-stamps-up-two-thirds/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:36:10 +0000 http://food-stamp-office.com/1651/46-million-on-food-stamps-up-two-thirds/ Number of the day 46 million That’s how many Americans receive food stamps, up about two-thirds from four years ago. The government spent a record $71.8 billion on the program in the last fiscal year, or about 12…

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