More Than 1 Million Puerto Ricans Are Seeing Cuts To Their Food Stamp Benefits
The Puerto Rican Department of the Family, which administers the program, plans to try to maintain the additional 300,000 families on the program, but that could mean even more cuts to people’s checks in the coming year if NAP doesn’t receive more funding.
He said the program was already not meeting the needs of low-income Puerto Ricans before the Hurricane, since it’s funded at levels far lower than SNAP, the food stamp program in the states, and is treated as a block grant rather than a program that can expand depending on changing needs. He indicated that Senate Republicans are unlikely to pass something that they know will not ultimately get the president’s sign-off.
“Unlike any state in the country, Puerto Rico is not automatically granted this kind of program, that’s why we need this measure,” Blumenthal said, of the food stamp funding. “People in Puerto Rico are going to be deprived of necessary food.”
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