Saturday, April 27, 2013

Food Stamp recruiter must enroll 150 Seniors a month

A Florida food stamp recruiter is tasked with enrolling at least 150 senior citizens in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program a month, The Washington Post reports in a profile about SNAP outreach. 
Following 56 year old recruiter Dillie Nerios perform her task, to appeal to seniors to get them to sign up for food stamp benefits, The Post offers additional insight into the program — which has reached record participation levels in recent months — currently feeding more than 47 million people, or one in seven Americans.
The story follows recruiter Dillie Nerios, 56, as she encourages approaches potentially SNAP-eligible seniors to join the program with the help of gift baskets. 
“Help is available,” The Post reports Nerios saying to hundreds of seniors each week. “You deserve it. So, yes or no?” 
“Rhode Island hosts SNAP-themed bingo games for the elderly. Alabama hands out fliers that read: ‘Be a patriot. Bring your food stamp money home.’ Three states in the Midwest throw food-stamp parties where new recipients sign up en masse,” the Post reports.
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4 comments:

KelleyGurl said...

To what end? Why on earth would they do this? There's no $$!
I just don't' understand Congress or Obama. Congress is responsible for keeping a leash on Obama.

Anonymous said...

Taxpayers should be outraged over this.

Anonymous said...

Gifts referred to by Romney that helped Obama, they add up to trillions of dollars

Anonymous said...

I heard about this, and I am outraged. Seniors who can golf every day DO NOT NEED FOOD STAMPS. We want that for the poor and needy. PERIOD. It isn't patriotic to take food stamps when you don't need them.

Heard about this on Medved. This is the outrage; not cutting Plannef Parenthood funding.

AZ