TAMPA, Fla., (WFLA) – This week, D-SNAP is holding an occasion to assist individuals struggling this vacation season on account of this yr’s hurricanes.
The occasion is being held exterior Raymond James Stadium to assist residents apply for the D-SNAP Program.
Residents had been lined up Tuesday at 5 a.m. to obtain help in making use of for this system.
These 8 On Your Facet spoke with mentioned how badly that is wanted, particularly through the holidays.
“I am very glad that it’s positively an possibility having the ability to get some meals, particularly for the vacations arising. It is positively going to be an enormous assist, I am a kind of individuals who do business from home, so being with out energy for therefore lengthy I additionally misplaced wages and could not work,” Shannon Williams mentioned.
Shannon Williams’s story is one we’ve got been listening to so much since Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
The Catastrophe Supplemental Dietary Help Program supplies meals help to people and households that want it and can assist individuals like Williams.
“Being this time of the yr, it is purported to be festive and completely satisfied and celebrating with household and buddies,” Williams mentioned. “Glad that household made it, and nobody was damage or something like that, however these issues are nonetheless at the back of your thoughts, like how am I going to get Christmas items this yr? How am I going to do the issues we usually do for the vacations that we might not be capable to do that yr.”
Officers mentioned they need individuals to pre-register on-line earlier than displaying up. In addition they need to remind individuals to carry proof of identification.
You probably have already pre-registered and been permitted over a telephone interview, you’ll obtain your EBT Card within the mail.
For these displaying up in individual, if permitted, you’ll stroll out along with your Card.
“We all know a whole lot of people and households are nonetheless recovering from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and D-SNAP is likely one of the many restoration responses that we’re offering,” mentioned Bridget Royster, with DCF.
With a purpose to qualify:
- You can’t be utilizing SNAP
- You should be residing within the permitted county on the time of the storm
- Meet eligibility necessities
- Have disaster-related loss
“So, that might be misplaced meals, lack of revenue as a result of storm, or different disaster-related bills you incurred to arrange for the storm,” Royster mentioned.
The quantity you obtain is predicated on how many individuals are in your house.
Williams mentioned she takes care of her household, together with her sick mom, and any quantity will assist.
“We’re positively making an attempt to make it via, you recognize, it has positively been tough. I’ve a sick mother, she’s paralyzed on one aspect, so positively been making an attempt to assist her together with her drugs and simply, it was very arduous, particularly being with out energy for therefore lengthy,” she mentioned.
The D-SNAP website might be working at Raymond James Tuesday via Thursday, from 7 a.m. to five p.m.
If you want to pre-register, click on here.
