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Advocates ask Vermont Senate to adopt SNAP restaurant‑meals option, seek funding to expand food programs
Summary
Hunger Free Vermont and partners asked the Senate Health & Welfare Committee to opt Vermont into the SNAP restaurant‑meals program for limited populations and requested state appropriations for startup and ongoing food‑security programs.
Advocates testifying before the Vermont Senate Health & Welfare Committee on Feb. 6 urged lawmakers to adopt the federal restaurant‑meals option for SNAP (known in Vermont as 3SquaresVT) for selected populations and to fund multiple food‑security initiatives.
Ivy Enoch, SNAP policy and training lead for Hunger Free Vermont, asked senators to instruct the state to opt into the restaurant‑meals program and to appropriate $75,000 for restaurant start‑up costs and $100,000 for a Department for Children and Families (DCF) staff position to administer the program. The testimony also requested $500,000 in base and one‑time funding for the Vermont Food Bank to prepare for disasters and distribute food, and $2,000,000 in base funding for home‑delivered meals for older and disabled Vermonters through…
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