Part 1: Stretching Your Budget to Pay for Healthy Food.

Part 1:Stretching Your Budget to Pay

for Healthy Food

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Stretching Your Budget to Pay for Healthy Food



Supplemental Nutrition AssistanceProgram

SNAP is a federally funded, means-tested entitlement program that

provides certain low-income individuals and families with a

monthly benefit that they can use to buy food.

It is administered by the US Department of Agriculture, but has

slightly different rules in every state.

It used to be known as the Food Stamps program.

What is SNAP?



Quick SNAP Facts

$134 The median SNAP benefit for households with an elderly person in 2013 ($113 for all living alone)

15.3% of elderly SNAP households received the minimum benefit in 2013 ($16 per month in 2013, now $15)

9.3% Proportion of all SNAP households with at least one person age 60 or older

42% Older adults eligible for SNAP who are actually participating in the program

2013 SNAP QC Data



SNAP has an application process that includes 3 steps

How to apply for SNAP



How to use SNAP benefits



SNAP complements other nutrition programs

Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program Emergency Food Assistance Program Commodity Supplemental Food Program Home Delivered Meals

• For example, Meals on Wheels Congregate Dining



Provides coupons to buy fresh fruits, vegetables, honey, and herbs

Use at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community programs that grow fruits and vegetables• Call: 1-866-348-6479• Visit:

www.fns.usda.gov/sfmnp/senior-farmers-market-nutrition-program-sfmnp

Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sfmnp/senior-farmers-market-nutrition-program-sfmnp





Helps you get basic foods, such as fruits, vegetables, cheese, pasta, soups, and beans necessary for adequate nutrition at no costs

You can pick up food at a local agency or receive a free meal• Call: 1-866-348-6479• Visit:

www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program-tefap

The Emergency Food Assistance Program

http://www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program-tefap

http://www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program-tefap



Monthly food package that you may take home

Designed to provide important nutrients that may be missing from your diet• Call: 1-866-348-6479• Visit: http://

www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pfs-csfp.pdf

Commodity Supplemental Food Program

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pfs-csfp.pdf





Online resources

USDA Recipe Finder• Create healthy menus from new foods• http://recipefinder.nal.usda.gov

BenefitsCheckUp® • Screen yourself for benefits programs to help pay for food,

medicine, housing, utilities, and more• www.BenefitsCheckUp.org

http://recipefinder.nal.usda.gov/



http://www.benefitscheckup.org/



Facilitators name and contact information• Name• Phone number• Email address

Join us for these classes to stay healthy!• Name, date, time, location• Name, date, time, location• Name, date, time, location

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