Pentagon Tells Struggling Army Soldiers, Families To Apply For Food Stamps

[Right_in_Virginia]

Pentagon Tells Struggling Army Soldiers, Families To Apply For Food Stamps
Daily Wire, Sep 10, 2022

The Pentagon is recommending U.S. soldiers struggling with soaring food prices apply for welfare, in a move that underscores both low military pay and the economic headwinds facing the nation as a whole.

The recommendation came last month from Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, and directs Army soldiers and their families to apply for food stamps through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known by the acronym SNAP.

“With inflation affecting everything from gas prices to groceries to rent, some Soldiers and their families are finding it harder to get by on the budgets they’ve set and used before,” the written guidance from Grinston reads. “SNAP is a U.S. government program that provides benefits to eligible low-income individuals and families via an electronic benefits transfer card that can be used like a debit card to purchase eligible food in authorized retail food stores. Service members and their families may be eligible.”

The official guidance includes other lending and financial counseling programs available to soldiers and lists contact information to help them enroll in SNAP.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-tells-struggling-army-soldiers-families-to-apply-for-food-stamps

[GtHawk]

Sorry chaps, we along the rest of the Dicktatorship are putting all our empathy and money into the Ukraine and 'migrants'. You're on on your own when it come to quarters that are livable and and won't kill you and food to keep your families alive........but hey we would still like you to fight and die for a government that doesn't give a crap about you, thank you very much!

[sneakypete]

Well,the military has to cut budget corners somewhere if they are going to come up with all the money they need to teach all the "group hug" courses they demand everyone attend these days.

[Elderberry]

This is nothing new. Many Military families have used food stamps since the program started back in the 60's.

https://www.military.com/paycheck-chronicles/2018/02/21/why-do-military-members-qualify-food-stamps.html

Qualifying for the food stamp program is a matter of math

Whether a family qualifies for food stamps has everything to do with household income level compared to household size. For military members, that means very junior troops -- on the bottom of the military pay scale -- with a few kids and stationed in a low cost-of-living area likely qualify for SNAP. The bigger the household and the more junior the member, the more likely they are to qualify.