Trump admin backs off idea to force SNAP users to reapply

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4. Early 90s, newly married, my then husband and I moved 200 miles away from the city

where his mother lived so he could attend graduate school. His mother was wealthy enough to help us out, and did. It took me a few months to find a job—I really was trying. She was getting concerned and pushed us (me) to go apply for food stamps. I’m sure her understanding of food stamps was that all I had to do was stroll in and say “No job, stamps plz?” and walk out with enough to go on a shopping spree at the grocery store.

I didn’t even make it past the first questionnaire in the lobby. They politely explained that our two cars were new enough that we would not qualify. I thanked them and left, feeling a bit embarrassed. But at least I was able to definitively tell the MIL that we weren’t eligible so she had to stop bringing it up. And not too long after that I finally did get a job, which made her feel better.