Texas draws criticism for insisting applications for disaster food stamps be filed in home counties
AUSTIN — Advocates for poor and moderate-income Texans are urging state officials to reconsider requiring that Hurricane Harvey victims return to their home counties to apply for federal disaster food relief.
Emergency food stamps to buy free groceries and hot meals should be issued to Texans displaced by the storms and flooding, even if they're temporarily far from home, two nutrition advocates said Tuesday.
"D-SNAP," or Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is aimed at people who are "scrambling to find all sorts of resources" but in most cases have never applied for food stamps, said Celia Cole, chief executive of Feeding Texas.
"There are going to be people who can't travel home to get SNAP benefits," said Cole, whose group formerly was known as the Texas Food Bank Network.
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