I recently submitted my families semi annual renewal for snap in Pennsylvania. Our income has only increased about $30 a month but our snap was cut in half. We are both self employed and in the past our income was calculated from our tax returns after deductions or from a profit loss sheet. This time it looks like they used the gross sales number as our actual income with no deductions taken. We both have to buy supplies, building materials and my partner has to pay for liability insurance in order to make money. It would be impossible to do our jobs if we didn't. Is this something new? I've already tried calling my case worker twice and left messages but no one has gotten back to me. Is this normal or something new? And is there anything I can do about it? We are a family of 4, 2 of which are children if that makes any difference.

hello!

i’m looking to apply for ga in California (San Mateo county) and i’m unable to work due to a disability preventing me to do so. i have applied for social security, thus i am looking for assistance in the mean time as i wait on my application.

my question is, what letter do i need to provide to the caseworker to be exempt from looking for work? i haven’t been approved for ss benefits yet (applied last month) i want to know what to ask my doctor so i can provide proof ahead of time before finishing my application.

i know there’s a release form for calworks but i’m a single adult with no dependents so i’m looking into general assistance and just want the smoothest route possible.

thank you for your help!

I got approved and everything was cool for about a month until i get an email saying i forgot to submit 2 documents and that if i didn’t submit them within a month my benefits would be cut. Okay im not tripping, i call my case manager to ask her what documents i missed. she doesn’t pick up. I call her multiple times throughout the month and leave voicemails, and nothing. Eventually i’m put in contact with her supervisor and i don’t get a response from her either despite calling several times throughout the month.

I also call my county a few times throughout the month and they won’t pick up either. Finally today 4 days before my benefits are supposed to be cut, i’m able to contact my county, explain my situation and figure out the needed documents. I was told that even if I submitted the documents today, which i did. My benefits would be cut because it takes a week for them to show up in the system 😗

I got 4 random transactions that luckily got blocked becuase they were out of state. I just got a new card with the chip in it how would some one else have the card number and my pin?

I recently got approved for cash assistance, food stamps, and Medicaid, and I’m trying to figure out the next steps for getting screened for CityFHEPS. Has anyone gone in person to HRA or Homebase and requested a screening after getting approved for benefits? What was the process like, what documents did you need, and how long did it take? I’ve heard that having an active cash assistance case can help you qualify for housing assistance, but I’m unsure how that actually works. Does receiving these benefits affect eligibility, or are there separate requirements? I’m currently staying with someone but have been told I need to leave. Can I get screened in this situation, before entering a shelter? I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through the process, especially where you went and what helped you get started.

Was wondering is anyone pending for Nov 1 in new york?

I am a GA snap recipient. I have me & my four kids on my snap. I made some income at the very end of August that I had forgot to report & only just now remembered because I made a little income in October as well. I am waiting on a call from my renewal & plan to submit the income then. The only problem I am having is that I made the income under my married name & not my maiden name which is what is on my snap benefits. I am terrified I will get in trouble for using two different names but I have all documentation to be able to change my name if needed as that was not my intention at all. Will this red flag my account? Am I going to be prosecuted for this discrepancy or will they just simply fix it in thr system?

I am planning to show proof to do what I need to make things correct & since I know the income will more than likely put me over will I just have to pay the past two months benefits back & close my case?

I need to find a job if sOme sort though because my food stamps haven't shown this month and they denied next month... Any recommendations or help in general to stay warm and eat would be help! Thank you guys

I just had my food stamps knocked down to just myself and not my kids. I live under the same roof as my parents. My kids live here too.

My parents are legal guardians of my kids due to a mental health crisis I experienced a few years ago. I applied for SNAP with my kids and was approved but now they have decided the kids aren't in my SNAP household. I prepare over 50% of their meals and nothing is shared or paid for by the guardians. I estimate I shop for and prepare 75% or more of their food.

Getting ready for the appeal I have over 70 texts in the last 2 months between me and my kids planning or notifying them of meals and food choices, and receipts showing food purchases and itemized reciepts ( bread, milk, cheese, meat etc.

I cannot get certain third party verifications due to an abusive environment. I uploaded an order of protection filing to show im in a hostile situation and can't get landlord verification or certain documents.

Anything else I can do? The decision says "doesn't live in household". A manager shut me down after my initial approval because I wasn't the guardian. Illi pis for reference.

I am scared of getting denied but we really need this. We live in TN and have a 3yo; he thinks I should claim that we aren’t together but he helps out a little and I just need help with food but idk what to do. I think we would be fine but I can’t afford to get denied and just need help.

Hi there, everyone! Has anyone received their renewal packet that is due in November yet? I have a lot of customers who need to renew, but I haven’t received anything yet, and we’re almost at the end of the month.

I'm in Nevada and I'm wondering for your instacart earnings are they counted as net or gross income?. I'm finding different things online

I would appreciate any advice! I am asking on behalf of my elderly mom in NYC so I don't know how everything all works...

My mom had been using the Propel app to lock her ebt card. She got too nervous about forgetting to unlock her card when in line to buy her groceries so alas, her funds were stolen this month, only $0.67 left in the account. She has already received a replacement card but she doesn't know how that impacts her account in Propel. Will Propel automatically link her new card number? Does she need to do anything to link the new card number?? Right now it is locked in Propel but she is nervous about having her funds stolen again.

Any advice is appreciated! I did some research and saw posts about Propel not being the best and that EBT Edge was a better app to use. I tried to get her to download the app but she encountered an error setting up her account and I'm across the country so I can't really help her. TIA!

I make $3K a month and still struggle with surviving. Food seems to cost a pretty penny and I'm wondering if it's worth applying for EBT. Do you know what financial limits you need to qualify?

Hi all,

I have a bit of a strange situation involving my EBT account being mistakenly drained at a store, and now the manager is only offering me (unofficial) store credit.

My partner and I stopped at our usual supermarket yesterday afternoon to pick up a few items. We have been using our cash assistance on food for a few days because our SNAP ran out early this month. When we were checking out, the cashier rang up our items for a total of $16.97. She charged it to SNAP first, because you must attempt to charge the SNAP account first for all food purchases, then once it was rejected on the SNAP account she switched it to Cash Assistance and asked me to swipe again and put in my PIN. Once the transaction went through, it was obvious there was some kind of mistake. According to the receipt, the item total was $16.17, but $125.90 was charged to the EBT cash account. The receipt calls for $108.93 in change. This mistake drained everything we had in our account.

The cashier called over the manager, who attempted to refund the $108.93 to the card, but that didn’t work. He said the only thing he can offer us is store credit. He wrote the date, the amount of $108.93, and “store credit“ on the back of the receipt, and told us to come back in today after 3pm because that’s when he would be back in (We thought he meant for us to pick up some sort of card with the store credit charged to it since he told us to bring the receipt. When we came back today, he told us that we should just bring the receipt back and talk to him whenever we need to buy something, so essentially the receipt would act as our store credit card. It makes me extremely uneasy to leave our, albeit mistakenly, stolen cash assistance up to ‘honor code’ in a situation where things already feel like they’re being handled poorly. The manager also isn’t there all the time — like today, when he wasn’t in until 3pm — so I’m not sure what he expects us to do when he isn’t there.)

My partner and I talked about the situation last night and decided that it seems, at best, incorrect and, at worst, scammy that store credit is the only option he is offering. We went back today to talk with him and asked for the reason he couldn’t give us the change owed to us in cash. All he gave us was “she made a mistake, we cannot offer the cash for it but we can offer store credit.” He doesn’t seem to have any real reason why he can’t give us the change we are owed in cash, other than the shrinkage it would cause, which quite frankly is not our problem. We left without ‘buying’ anything.

While, on a logistical level, I can obviously understand why it isn’t ideal for the store to give cash change for a transaction that never actually existed, this entire situation was an honest mistake made by the cashier that needs to be made right by the store. We shop for food at various stores and had no intention of spending the rest of our cash assistance for the month just at this supermarket. Times are tough for everyone right now, and this has left us in a hard spot with a horrible taste in our mouths.

My question is: do we have any recourse here? Is there any reason, from an EBT policy standpoint, that he cannot give us the change we are owed in cash? Any advice or information you all can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance everyone.

I have completed almost everything required and asked of me for a TANF case that I had reopened and appealed from April of this year. The final leg was the 196 a form. Sent out 10/7 and I returned it 10/8 I was not told I would have to return back ALL documents so I printed what was in my correspondence. signed the first two pages where my signature states and uploaded a single picture of it (at the time uploading all 5 pages really didn’t occur to me.)

Yesterday I got a denial, because I didnt upload more pictures of the document. I offered to just upload the rest of the pictures and apologized because if I would’ve known the technical error I would’ve immediately corrected it.

My case worker says she’s not reopening it and I will have to file another appeal.

My understanding is.. The Policy Section 1105 (Application Processing) /
Section 1710 (Recertification Verification
Framework) states;

• When a TANF case is denied solely due to a failure or refusal to provide mandatory verification, the assistance unit (AU) has a 30-day grace window starting from the exact date of the denial notice to submit the missing items.
• If the required verification is "cured" (turned in) within those 30 days, the agency is instructed to reopen the existing application using the original filing date.

It also states in Section 1105.5 (Standard of Promptness & Processing Deadlines) @ Georgia gov

• Caseworkers are legally prohibited from requiring a client to submit a brand-new application if the client provides the missing verifications within 30 days of the denial.

I could see if I just completely ignored requirements, but I’m 19 and in school with a 2 year old. I have went to every appointment and just because I did not know to upload every page, all of my backpay that I need for rent may just be out the window.. frustrating

We love to annoy people who would steal food from kids.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/people-indicted-oregon-snap-fraud-schemes-3-million/283-547003c8-5b3d-4fa6-9475-f2d9acb02e69

My son and I had to re-apply after continuous SNAP fo 3+ years when my renewal got screwed up back in APRIL…been waiting since the begginning of JULY after the phone interview and several “escalations” in person and on the phone. recieved almost 6 months of back pay and already time to renew lol. Anyways jist wanted to give yall an update and to not give up……

I have been trying to use the abe website but I think my old account is locked. I tried ebt edge and it's saying my card is invalid/deactivated. It just came in the mail today. I tried calling the hotline and the bot is saying my account can not be accessed at this time? And Ive been trying all day for a person. What do I do I need to eat I already had a nearly 2 month delay of my card getting here and this is a real kick to the gut rn:(

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i'm currently a full-time college student and i began an internship in late-august (two months ago) and the duration of the internship will be 38 weeks (a little less than 9 months). however, the way the stipend is provided is through a one-time payment for the estimated cumulative hours over the entire internship. i forgot to report when i received the payment, and the amount that I received is very much over my estimated IRT. if i divide it by the entire time i will be working, then it isn't (but i don't think it's calculated that way). also i reported the change only shortly after i filled out the recertification form, so now i'm slightly panicked. i looked it up and i believe i should issued an overpayment, but i'm not sure if that is only for the month that i received the stipend and if this will affect my snap benefits in the future. if someone can provide some guidance on any other actions i should take, please let me know!

edit: i live in california for context! and also my recertification interview call won't be until mid november!