this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
1097 points (99.5% liked)
People Twitter
8548 readers
2336 users here now
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
- Mark NSFW content.
- No doxxing people.
- Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
- No bullying or international politcs
- Be excellent to each other.
- Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician. Archive.is the best way.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If that's 33 years, then that would mean an individual gets $2121 a year, or $176 a month. Either the SNAP benefits are garbage or this person is exaggerating.
SNAP benefits per person are very modest. Nationally, average monthly snap benefits per individual are $187 per month.
Well, look at these moneybags with 187 a month. My elderly neighbor on a fixed income gets 17.00 a month.
It's garbage.
Barely enough to survive on, and if you try to get a second job to supplement income, better hope you don't go beyond the income limits. In Alabama, that's $1,631/mo or about $407 per week. If you make $408? Congrats! No more SNAP.
They are not enough to feed yourself, that’s for sure.
Rice and beans have historically been pretty cheap. You can survive on SNAP if you've got a place to live and no other options. You certainly won't be thriving.
It's the economic equivalent of emergency life support.
The only way I managed to have somewhat decent meals while on SNAP was being lucky enough to have a decently sized discount grocer nearby.
That also meant all the meat I bought was only 2-3 days from the sell-by date, and they weren't fucking around with that. If you didn't freeze it, it started going off quickly. Most of my produce came from cans or microwave bags, anything "fresh" was as close to going off as the meat. Dry goods were a mixed bag of overstock, damaged out, and sold so poorly in other stores it got shunted off to discounts just to move.
The freshest things they got in were milk and eggs. Those sold out within the day of delivery. If you couldn't get there early, you went without.
I know it differs per state but for a single member household the max benefit is approx $300 a month. It goes up when adding more family members, with a household of 4 getting approx $1k per month. I guess it is possible that a state offers lower benefits per family member, so $176 isn't too far of a stretch per person. The fact of the matter is that he did it and got away with it, not how many people he technically robbed.
In 2019 I lost my job and ended up on unemployment. At the time my sons were all still living with me, 20, 18, and 17yo. Unemployment +1 dependant was enough to cover my modest mortgage. My other 2 sons paid the utilities and anything else came from my savings account. We received $15mo in Snap benefits.
It's hard not to slap people who think people with Snap are skating through life.
Yeah anyone I've experienced that talks shit about SNAP has never been in dire enough straights to actually need that safety net. It's always assholes that have had someone to fall back on, people they can ask for money, or spend mommy and daddy's money without consequence. I support these systems because I know what being dropped on your ass is like and not knowing where your next meal is going to come from. Nobody, especially children, deserve to go hungry in the modern world.
I was on snap in college and I had to resubmit the paperwork to apply every 3 months. What I got would change every time I refiled. I feel like it had a lot to do with which caseworker I got. Sometimes the paperwork would come in the mail past the deadline for the interview and I would have to restart the process.