Who qualifies for food stamps?
• Most households qualify for food stamps if their income and resources are low enough. • If you are age 60 or over, or you are receiving Social Security Disability (not SSI/SSP), or Medi-Cal due to a disability, or a full VA pension, you may be eligible even though your income is over the gross income limits, if you pay very high rent and utilities and/or have medical expenses well over $35 per month. This must be computed on a case-by-case basis. Households May be Any of the Following: • An individual living alone • An individual living with others but who buy food and cook meals together. • Parents living with their children 21 years old or younger (married or unmarried, with their own children or not) • Adult children (22 years or older) living with their parents can have a separate household as long as they buy and cook their meals apart from the parents • Siblings living together can have separate households as long as they are 18 or older and they buy and cook meals apart from e
