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Posts Tagged ‘Calfresh’

USDA policy changes threaten SNAP eligibility

By Caroline Hart | November 4, 2019 | 1
A purple bag with canned food and dry goods.

About one quarter of Californians who use Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits would lose or decrease their benefits if the USDA Food and Nutrition Service enacts a proposed rule change to the program.

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Alameda County residents sue over food stamps application backlog

By Teresa Cotsirilos | November 10, 2015

A class action lawsuit claims that Alameda County’s Social Services Agency has a 10,657 backlog in food stamps applications, blocking some residents’ access to food.

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Talk of banning soda from food stamp benefits elicits upset and uncertainty

By Jennifer Chaussee | October 9, 2013 | 5
bottles of water

Restricting food stamp users from buying soda with their benefits is an idea sparking debate in Oakland, where City Hall officials, food policy advocates and food stamp users are far from consensus on whether a ban would hurt or help the city’s poor.

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Demand for food bank and food stamp programs on the rise in Oakland

By Jennifer Chaussee | October 1, 2013 | 5
Picture of dried and canned foods.

Calls for food bank assistance and food stamps have risen in Oakland and Alameda County despite the official end to the recession.

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Oakland assemblyman wants to lift food stamp ban for ex-drug felons

By Nicole Jones | June 23, 2011 | 8

A new bill authored by Oakland State Assemblyman Sandre Swanson could lift the ban preventing former drug offenders from receiving food stamps. “It is the right thing to do,” Swanson said, adding that California invests millions of dollars supporting prisoners that are released, only to find them returning within a couple of years.

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