Help buying food available in 14 KY counties affected by floods, storms, says USDA
Republished from Kentucky Lantern
Residents of 14 Kentucky counties affected by recent storms and flooding may be eligible for food assistance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday.
An estimated 12,660 households are eligible for help buying groceries through D-SNAP or the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, says a USDA news release.
Kentucky will operate its virtual and in-person application for the program Wednesday through Friday, March 5-7.
Eligible counties are Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Floyd, Harlan Johnson, Knott, Lee, Letcher, Martin, Owsley, Perry, Pike and Simpson.
To be eligible for D-SNAP, a household must either live or work in an identified disaster area, have been affected by the disaster and meet certain D-SNAP eligibility criteria. Eligible households will receive one month of benefits – equal to the maximum monthly amount for a SNAP household of their size – that they can use to purchase groceries at SNAP-authorized stores or from select retailers online to meet their temporary food needs as they settle back home following the disaster.
For more information about Kentucky SNAP, visit Kynect Benefits. For more information about this and other available aid, callers from Kentucky can dial 2-1-1.
Although current SNAP households are not eligible for D-SNAP, USDA has also approved Kentucky to automatically issue supplemental SNAP benefits to current SNAP households in the 14 approved counties to bring their allotment up to the maximum amount for their household size if they don’t already receive that amount.
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