Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Friday that it is automatically issuing money to anyone receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits who lived in areas affected by the devastating storms in mid-December.
“Under a federal waiver approved on January 5, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit recipients who live in storm-affected areas will automatically receive a replacement benefit totaling 60 percent of their December benefit this Saturday, January 13, 2024,” said Maine’s DHHS.
Maine’s DHHS will use federal funding to give 60 percent of December benefits to all SNAP recipients who lived in areas affected by the December storm.
The funds will be automatically transferred onto the recipient’s Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards.
The December storm knocked out the power for over half of Maine households, many of which took days to have their power restored.
Many of the affected households may have lost food due to a lack of power and proper refrigeration.
However, the DHHS’ SNAP reimbursement does nothing to verify whether any given recipient actually lost any food due to the storm.
The DHHS is automatically issuing the benefits to over 76,000 households.
Prior to the DHHS’ announcement, only roughly 5,000 households applied for reimbursements for food lost due to a lack of power.
The significant disparities between the number of households that requested reimbursement, and the number that will receive it, suggests that there is a possibility that many of the households receiving federal funds do not need it.
Power may have been restored much faster if Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) had announced a state of emergency and applied for federal aid before, rather than after, the December storm.
Gov. Mills’ failure to issue a state of emergency before the storm struck the state, thus preventing Maine from properly preparing for the coming storm.
Mills then appeared to lie, in an attempt to claim that her administration was unaware of the coming storm, despite the National Weather Service saying that it briefed her administration on the storm before it hit.
[RELATED: National Weather Service Strongly Suggests Janet Mills Lied About Storm Warnings…]
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🖕🏿Mills !!!
janet TrustFund mills is trying to buy votes again. She is so pathetic. That woman will go down in history as Maine’s dumbest white girl. Those losers on welfare are not exactly involved in their communities. Doubt she scores many real ballots from this.
What goes unreported in stories like these is WHERE THE “FREE” MONEY COMES FROM. 76,000 Maine families just got $13.5 million from ???? Whenever our government, be it the State or the Feds, spends (or gives away) money it must come from one of ONLY three places:
1. Increased taxes
2. Cuts in funding of existing programs (stop laughing, it could happen!)
3. Borrowing
So far, the Feds have borrowed $34 Trillion. What’s in Your Wallet?
The Yum Yum Tree is Washington just shed more cash!
Same scheme to buy votes as Biden tuition buyouts…. Big piles of tax payer monies with no accountability.
@ Randy Poulton
You forgot #4. The jews fake fiat currency. Which is of course your number 3.
How about offer it and send to those that ask for it? Certainly not everyone they are sending money to was affected by the storm. What a waste.