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[Title] Advancing 3SquaresVT: An Outreach Guide to Vermont’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance… [Author] Mickey Hubbard [Year] 2009 [Publication Type] Field Reports [Community Focus] Food Retailers, Service Providers, SNAP/Food Stamp Recipients [Location] Barre, Domestic, Vermont [Description] Advancing 3SquaresVT: An Outreach Guide to Vermont’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides strategies for food shelves to enroll more Vermonters in SNAP/food stamps.… Read more [Affiliation] Emerson Fellow [Body] 
The Vermont Foodbank gratefully acknowledges the Campaign End Childhood Hunger Economic Services Division Department for Children and Family members SquaresVT Work Group their assistance input this guide Ushering New Name Improved Program Renewed Outreach Flyers Posters Impact Economy Speak Homelessness Emergency Benefits Addressing Immigration Concerns Rural Complications Know Your Clientele Reaching Seniors Dealing With Stigma Not Welfare Supporting SelfSufficiency Culture Worth Farmers Markets Medical Deductions Transportation Easing Applicaiton Process What Can Get Minimum Benefit Paperwork Assistance PreScreening Clients Categorical Eligibility That Send Page Recertification Reporting Changes Documents May Required Other Resources Included with please find prescreening worksheet benefit allotment chart application several flyers put your organization Application previously called Food Stamp one most important efficacious antipoverty programs United States Over Vermonters participate program which provides help supplement diets those facing economic hardship However not all that are eligible receive resource Many face difficult obstacles enrolling have misconceptions about Thus more work must done who need food shelf meal site other service provider frontlines emergency system fight end hunger You strategic position households take advantage since many people you serve may qualify can further assist helping challenges retaining these benefits through review process One reasons renewed outreach let know significant changes eligibility way some levels determined These will open thousands were ineligible due income assets utilize resources communities refocus begin new efforts keep mind enclosed folks visit might now This tool kit offers strategies tips organizations use apply SquraesVT recertify even organizational scarce reaching out individuals tools families understand impact could situation ideas reducing barriers trying enroll Whether big small there information packet enhance current Even volunteer monetary limited maximize get every Vermonter enrolled name Supplemental Nutrition formerly Please spread word change For longer asset test person own car house savings accounts retirement college but still Although count determining persons level from over age disabled limit household greater than federal poverty such higher include simplification medical deductions seniors placing limits care dependents determine enrollees usually leading amount only provide documentation worth expenses standard deduction Working parents also deduct childcare gross when applying While enrollment net minus under cash mean able claim access increased changed been updated reflect inflation Households children Earned Income Tax Credit EITC Reach Post Secondary Education member receiving Security SSI Household Size Monthly Gross Limit Each Additional Person Add following January very easy available visiting yoru read them materials should recent great 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clients wait line want add tell friends family Obviously someone asks much possible encouraging offer Providing message impractical variety ranging too opportunity bring without stigmatizing invading privacy opportunities vary carried appropriate compassionate promoting participation SquarsVT Oneonone mouth reinforce address any issues especially true groups lower rates like respond recommendations literature experiencing homelessness particularly daunting Often multitude pressing matters individual worry They feel though staying shelter preclude photo kitchen serves meals she young parental taken account reviewed has earned less during last month spends rent its earn would hand within seven days others crisis expedited monthly cannot bank Migrant seasonal farm workers little utilities additional similar normal applicants fill interview faster immediate remind send pages better portions behalf Some how citizenship immigration status affect concerns clear manner questions easily 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