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Advocates ask committee to expand 3 Squares Vermont options, fund farmers-market incentives and Meals on Wheels
Summary
Hunger Free Vermont and partners asked the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee to let select SNAP participants use benefits at restaurants, and to fund NOFA Vermont incentive programs and additional Meals on Wheels base funding.
Hunger Free Vermont and partner organizations urged the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee to expand how the state’s SNAP program (branded 3 Squares Vermont) can be used and to increase state funding for several nutrition programs.
Ivy Enoch, SNAP policy and training lead at Hunger Free Vermont, asked lawmakers to pass legislation authorizing Vermont to opt into the SNAP Restaurant Meals Program and to appropriate $75,000 for restaurant startup costs and $100,000 for a Department for Children and Families…
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