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you can have the best job one day, and the
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next day you can be the person at the county
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assistance office, even if it's just what it's myself and
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I have three Children, I get, like, 400 or something.
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You have to know how to be able to budget
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things. The first plan I saw 6 99 We have
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the American cheese and turkey where I be alone in
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Turkey. Ham that'll feed my Children lunch.
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There's no tomorrow with their package, So then you have
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to actually multiply it.
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Thank 30 days what you do.
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You make enough for it to go into the next
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day or the following, and I try not to cook
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too big because things again going back, especially when you're
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receiving snap benefits.
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You can't really think about yourself.
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If I get something for myself, I might get like
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a cracker or something that I like and go from
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there. But we all like, enjoy the same thing.
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Only pay for what you need with Liberty Mutual.
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Do you think you could survive if you only had
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a couple of dollars a day for thank you, don't
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cut me down and cut me down, Put me down.
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Scott gets $45 a month in food stamp benefits now
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called Snap Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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On this day, there are nine days left before his
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card is replenished at the end of the month is
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the hardest Would you eat?
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Snap also offers a online app where you can look
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for jobs.
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These jobs will be a benefit so that you can
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get off of the program, and this is what we
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need for the economy.
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We need these people to be able to look for
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jobs, and they with this app it will actually search
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for jobs in their community.
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This way they are not out with covid looking for
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jobs that might not be available.
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This is a resource for them so that they are
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out looking for employment and have that ability to get
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off of this snap benefits.
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Amazon Prime also allows for snap benefit holders.
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Two. Get I discount and with Amazon Prime, you can
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also go online and get fresh benefits sent to your
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home and time for do it yourself home automation.
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And this is a look at whether you can use
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E B T or Snap, also known as food stamps,
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to purchase things on Amazon Fresh.
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Um, and actually you can.
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Now it's a new capability that Amazon just introduced as
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part of a two year government program, and the concept
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is that people who live in an area where they
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have food stamps may not be able to get fresh
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produce and that kind of thing, or they may not
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have the time to shop for healthy, fresh kinds of
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foods. So they're probably only going to have access to
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maybe canned goods and that kind of thing.
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And in order to help with that, Amazon partnered with
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the government to allow snap e b T food stamp
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benefits to be used to purchase food to have delivered
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directly to your house on Amazon.
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Fresh. Um, so the way it works is if you
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have e b T.
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You can go in and put your card information into
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Amazon. Um, normally Amazon fresh.
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The food delivery is a extra service that costs about
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$15 a month, but I believe it's being comped for
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people who are on E.
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B. T during this to your trial period.
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And there's also discounts on the overall Amazon Prime service
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for people with DBT cart.
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Um, then you can purchase things like fresh produce, milk
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and that kind of thing, even frozen goods on the
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Amazon Fresh website, with delivery to your house again using
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your BBT benefits with that card linked and those items.
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Then just get delivered to your house and these Amazon
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fresh bags.
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Um, and everything is temperature controlled, so you don't have
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to go out and shop for them.
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Um, and you don't have to necessarily live in an
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area where there's a complete access to good grocery stores
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and that kind of thing because the food is being
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delivered to your door.
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It's only available in certain markets at the moment, with
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snap using the app.
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This actually looks in looks for jobs within so many
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miles of your home.
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You can extend that search.
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You can put that search within so many miles.
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You can put it within walking distance, depending on if
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you have a car or ride.
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This app is a great resource for those people who
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are getting benefits.
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This app also shows them what they have coming to
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them as far as impact payments.
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As far as people who have kids that are at
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home, and it just shows them you know what they
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have up and coming and what's going on.
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It helps them manage like insurance.
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If they need insurance, it also offers, like free birth
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control. It just gives them an update on what they
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need to know about what's going on.
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Um, it just basically breaks down everything and explains it
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to them, just in case they're not understanding what's going
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on in the news or what's being told to them
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about their benefits.
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But the biggest thing is is, you know, they really
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want them to find employment, so they make that front
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and center.
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They always find ways for them to save money for
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them to earn money just so that they don't need
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these benefits anymore.
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They want them to go out there.
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They want them to find a job.
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They have them all over the map trying to get
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them out there.
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They know that people are in need.
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They know that these people, um, have had extenuating circumstances.
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Hurricanes covid.
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I mean, there's always low income poverty, families.
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There's always going to be a reason for the snap
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benefits, but we do need to make sure that we
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are doing things to try to help them get off
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of these benefits, and we need to make sure that
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they are not doing anything illegal as far as selling
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these benefits or doing things that, um may make it
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harder for other people to get benefits.
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We want to make sure that the people that need
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these benefits are getting these benefits.
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State and federal food assistance programs are meant to help
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struggling families, but not everybody uses their E b T
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card the way it's intended.
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We've obtained records indicating that some people swipe their cards
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for alcohol and even strip clubs.
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News channel lines.
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Alyssa's Parrado joins us now with today's waste watch report
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Alyssa. In order to make sure that these types of
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types of things are not happening, we need to make
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sure that there are people watching out.
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We need to make sure that we have stricter enforcement.
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We do need to make sure that people who are
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getting these benefits are seeking employment, that they really, truly
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want to eventually come off in these programs.
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But we do want them to use them appropriately.
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We want them to be able to provide their family
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with fresh fruits and fresh vegetables that otherwise might not
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be able to have fresh fruits and fresh vegetables.
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We want them to be able to give their family
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things that they might not have had otherwise.
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We want them to be able to provide food for
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their families, but we also want them to better themselves,
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and we want them out there seeking employment so that
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they can go ahead and come off of these benefits.