How Often Have You Qualifide For Food Stamps ??? - Me... 3 Times In 58 Years...

[WillyT]

[RebelOne]

1. I did once. I am on Social Security

and I hoped that food stamps would help supplement my meager income. But I was only eligible for $35 a month. I decided that small amount was not worth the trouble. But I may apply again because that little amount could buy my bread and eggs for a month.

[Kaleva]

2. Once and I'll probably keep getting them for the rest of my days.

[pscot]

3. Twice? It's been a while.

[loli phabay]

4. never, though i have no idea what the qualifiers are.

[Tikki]

5. For a couple years back in the 70's...

The reason we didn't get them wasn't pride so much as not knowing
our way around…new to a totally different State than we grew up in.
I think if we had asked, someone would have helped us figure it out.

Tikki

[hfojvt]

6. probably never

the one time I applied in 1995 I was told I had too many assets. Although my income qualified me for $100+ per month, the fact that I bought some land in 1987 for $4500 meant I could not get any. The thing that sorta burned me up was that I could own a $5,000 car and still qualify. At the time I owned NO car, and I still have never paid (or felt I could afford to pay) $5,000 for a car.

I owned that land until 2009 when I sold it for $22,000. I didn't really want to sell it, but they assessed it for $25,000 which raised the property taxes pretty high. My idea was to put it on the market for $25,000 and prove it was assessed too high after it didn't sell for a year. I guess the market proved me wrong.

So the land would prevent me from getting food stamps from 1987 until 2009 and after that the $20,000 cash would also prevent me from getting food stamps.

[RGinNJ]

7. Just now, $16.00 a month but it helps.

[Chuuku Davis]

8. Once

Twice for WIC

[bluestate10]

9. My family got food stamps for a while when I was a pre-teen. My dad had lost his job,

the family couldn't eat on my mom's earnings. I hated getting food stamps, but long ago I recognized how important they are to a working society.

[giftedgirl77]

10. Once, when I was a single mother of my oldest son

who is 15 now. He was barely a year old & I had just left his dad who had used me as a human punching bag for about 4 years. I was about 20 years old & we lived in a house that we had to keep the power cut off to half the house bc when we would flip a light switch it sparked & sizzled from the switch to the light.

Needless to say I moved into a better apt & qualified for food stamps. However, they were cutoff as soon as my $100 a month in child support kicked in. Like that shit made a difference, but we dealt with it. I ran a paper route at 3 am with my son with me then worked a day job as well.

[SheilaT]

11. Never, although

had food stamps existed back in the early 60's we would have qualified without a doubt. There were five kids at home, and mom was a nurse. Nurses did not make much money back then. Dad was not in the picture.

What helped a lot, as terrible as it was for a few years, was that we always knew things would get better for us. And they did.

When I was a sophomore in high school I had a Saturday baby-sitting gig that paid three dollars for eight hours. I used the money to buy groceries for the family.

[Lugnut]

12. Once.

My husband's union went on strike when the kids were pretty young. I immediately went to the assistance office and signed up for food stamps. I've been very fortunate to not need them after the strike was over.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. I got food stamps and AFDC from 1972 to 1975

when my oldest daughter was a baby and I found myself unexpectedly single.