{"id":284959,"date":"2018-09-20T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=284959"},"modified":"2018-09-20T06:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:06:47","slug":"usda-to-replace-lost-food-stamp-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/usda-to-replace-lost-food-stamp-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA to replace lost food stamp benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-Guam) has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s\u00a0Food and Nutrition Service\u00a0has approved a disaster-recovery waiver for Guam under the federal\u00a0Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as \u201cfood stamps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This waiver will allow Guam residents, eligible for SNAP benefits, to obtain additional federal benefits to replace any SNAP-purchased food lost as a result of Typhoon Mangkhut. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued this waiver following\u00a0Bordallo\u2019s request\u00a0for a federal emergency declaration for Guam and the governor\u2019s subsequent request to President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Affected Guam residents eligible for SNAP should contact the Guam\u00a0Department of Public Health and Social Services\u00a0before close of business on Oct. 9, 2018, to obtain replacement SNAP benefits typhoon recovery.\u00a0DPHSS\u00a0is the local GovGuam agency responsible for administering federal SNAP benefits on Guam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur neediest families can now get additional SNAP benefits to replace food spoiled or damaged by Typhoon Mangkhut. This is exactly the type of federal aid needed as our island recovers. I look forward to additional assistance from the federal government to help all our families and businesses impacted by the storm,\u201d\u00a0said Bordallo. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-Guam) has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s\u00a0Food and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":284962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22746,1907,22618,117],"class_list":["post-284959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-affected-guam","tag-snap","tag-typhoon-mangkhut","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}