Liberalized Food Stamp
Program Begins April 1
Pennsylvania’s low income
families may pin chase mote
food lor less money undei the
liberalized Fcdeial food stamp
pi ogram, effective Apul 1 State
Secietaiy of Public Welfare
Stanley A Millei said lecently
Under the new system, the
total monthly amount ol food
Stamps pui chased by low in
Come families will be ot um
foi m value within each house
hold size and will no longei
Taiy with income
A Federal-State local coopeia
live effort in the Common
Wealth, the food stamp piogiam
is currently in effect in 61 coun
ties The State Depaitment ol
Public Welfare, thiough the
county boards of assistance, de
termines the eligibility ol fami
lies tc participate
“Changes in the lood stamp
income basis of issuance will
give low income families enough
coupons to pm chase the U 3
Department of Agnciiltui e’s
diet’ and will help
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Lancaster,
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cairv out Picsident Nixon's
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hiingci in the United States”
Miller slated in commenting on
the icvisions
Foi a family ol four (the
“typical example' of iood and
income statistics) the new total
allotment ot tood stamps will be
fixed at $lO6 a month an 83
pei cent boost ovei the pievious
mmimuh of $5B a month The
fom peison family with an in
come of $9O a month will pay
$22 foi the coupons while the
family of fom with an income
of $230 a month will pay $66 for
the fixed $lO6 allotment
At piesent, a foui -member
family with a monthly income
of $9O pm chases $76 worth of
food stamps, at a cost of $4O
The same size family with an in
come of $320 pays $72 for
stamps woith $96
The new policy fixes food
£' mp allotments at $2B a month
ioi one-peison living alone, $56
for two pei son household, $B4
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a month for a thrcc-pcrson
household and $126 for a five
person household.
Since May 1961, when (he
loot! stamp plan was initialed in
Pennsylvania, tlnough Oetobei
1969, a total of $235 million in
food stamps have been issued in
the Slate. Recipients paid $l6O
million Joi the stamps Jor a
savings of $75 million in food
pm chases Thcie weie 71,328
households in the 61 pailicipat
ms; counties em oiled in the pio
giani as of October 1969 Seveial
non pailicipatmg counties will
be eligible loi the food stamp
piogiam within the next few
months
The piogiam is designed to
inciease the food pin chasing
powei, and therefoie the lood
consumption, of peisons with
low incomes The State and
counties pailicipatmg in the
food stamp piogram share ad
mmistialive costs an a 50 50
matching basis Counties that do
not haie the piogiam pay all
the cost of distubuting suiplus
food
Impiovements to the food
stamp progiam have been made
possible by a $6lO million ap
piopnation to the US Depait
ment of Agnculture for opeia
tion of the piogram this 1970
fiscal year.
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Weather
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