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Indiana issuing food stamps early due to government shutdown

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana plans to issue February’s food stamp benefits next week for hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers due to the partial federal government shutdown.

The state’s Family and Social Services Administration said Friday it will distribute February’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on Jan. 19 for about 585,000 Indiana residents.

Indiana’s SNAP benefits are usually issued to recipients over a 19-day period each month.

But the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service has directed states to issue February’s benefits early as a one-time early benefit due to the ongoing government shutdown.

The FSSA says it’s “strongly” encouraging Indiana’s SNAP recipients to budget the benefits they’ll receive next week to ensure that they’ll cover their food needs throughout February.

January’s SNAP benefits are being distributed according to the normal schedule.

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Dan January 14, 2019 at 10:26 am

Just consider how much money would be available for those that really need “assistance” if the low lives that could would get a job and go to work everyday and pay for their own lives.

Webster dictionary definition of assistance: the act of helping or assisting someone.

New America’s definition of assistance: buy me food, pay for my house, give me a phone, just give me some cash. over and over and over for ever and ever and ever!

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