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Committee discusses $50,000 proposal to help victims of SNAP theft
Summary
Committee members discussed allocating $50,000 from unassigned funds to the family crisis fund to provide replacement cards or gift cards to families affected by SNAP theft; staff and counsel were asked to return with the legal steps needed to enact the allocation.
Committee members discussed a proposal to allocate $50,000 in unassigned funds to the city’s family crisis fund to provide immediate assistance to families whose SNAP benefits have been stolen, but took no formal vote and asked staff and counsel to return with next steps.
Chairwoman Cheryl Lynch described a sharp increase in calls reporting SNAP theft and cited an earlier finding of a 63% increase in…
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