25% of US kids on food stamps

[Knobby22]

Refer link.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-in-four-children-on-food-stamps-one.html

For those of you who understand the US economy.
Is it correct to say that food stamps are what you get when your unemployment benefits run out? Or do you get it with unemployment benefits?

How do food stamps get used i.e. how do you get the food?

Thanks

Knobby22

 

[Timmy]

Sorry Knobby, no answers to your questions, but saw this and thought I would add it.

From Bloomberg: Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=aFbqGE.lEdi0
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.

 

[wayneL]

Refer link.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-in-four-children-on-food-stamps-one.html

For those of you who understand the US economy.
Is it correct to say that food stamps are what you get when your unemployment benefits run out? Or do you get it with unemployment benefits?

How do food stamps get used i.e. how do you get the food?

Thanks

Knobby22

I remember mum using food stamps when I was really young in LA. At the time you took the stamps along to certain stores and spent them like cash... can't remember how they were acquired however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program

 

[Aussiejeff]

I remember mum using food stamps when I was really young in LA. At the time you took the stamps along to certain stores and spent them like cash... can't remember how they were acquired however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program

Don't they come in cereal packets with a lil' plastic toy?

 

[Knobby22]

Thanks for the information.
The US system appears to be very different from Australia.

Knobby22