How Do You Get Emergency Help With A Food Assistance Program?
Food is a necessity. People who have fifty dollars or so in their grocery budget can make ends meet by shopping frugally and matching coupons to sale fliers, but that doesn’t help people who have no money for groceries. For those people, the solution is emergency food assistance. Gather documentation. You’ll need birth certificates and/or Social Security cards for each family member and information on any financial assistance programs you are already receiving help from for each emergency food assistance program. Some programs also require tax records, savings account records and information on your cars and the value of each vehicle. Apply for SNAP. Because the food stamps program requires a lot of documentation and has stricter financial requirements than most other emergency food assistance programs, it usually isn’t the first thing someone desperate for food will plan to apply for. However, applying right away means you’ll be able to get the application moving through the system. I
