The state office that manages food stamps has made progress working through a backlog that delayed the benefits for thousands of Alaskans. But new problems have cropped up. AlaskaBeacon reporter Claire Stremple joins us on ANN to discuss her reporting.
So can you walk us through this legal action over the backlog of food stamp benefits?Yeah, that started early this year. So in January, a group of 10 Alaskans sued the Department of Health because they’d been waiting too long for food stamps. Food stamps are also known as SNAP . It’s a federal program the state manages. But it has to manage it within certain parameters, like getting people’s paperwork done and their benefits to them within 30 days.
And they helped nearly 2,000 people get fair hearings, which are basically an appeal to the state that says, “Hey. You’re late. That’s illegal. Please file my benefits.” And so the state does. And that helped people get their money for food, which is huge because some people were waiting for four or five months. One family that I talked about with a legal volunteer, the family was waiting several months and they ended up getting nearly $20,000 that the state owed them for food.Wow.
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