Several Georgia residents are experiencing delays in receiving their benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps many low-income families provide food for their households.
In Georgia, approximately 1.6 million people, or 15% of the population, receive food stamps or SNAP benefits. The average payment per household member per month is $188.Residents of Georgia are scheduled to receive benefits from June 5-23. However, many recipients are reporting that they have been waiting months to receive their SNAP benefits.
"We are also being hampered by federal rules and requirements which prevent us from streamlining this process. Senior leadership has met with and urged our federal regulators to approve several waivers that would allow us to process cases faster through new technology and automation," the department said.
"Though we have communicated with our federal counterparts frequently and urged them to grant these waivers multiple times, many of them have remained pending for about a year," the Georgia DHS said."Nonetheless, we continue to explore ways to secure more flexibility from our federal regulators to process cases more quickly and efficiently."
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