How SNAP Benefits Seniors—and Health Care's Bottom Line [rwjf.org]

Alicia Doktor 2/5/184:00 AM

The fresh fruit, frozen vegetables and salad Karen Seabolt eats help her “do more of what I need to do to live a better life,” she says. The 66-year-old from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has diabetes and is paralyzed on her right side from a stroke.

As a diabetic, Karen needs to eat the fresh fruits and vegetables her doctors recommend, and the $15 dollars per month she gets from SNAP—the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—help her do that.

“It really comes in handy towards the end of the month. You may run out of money, but you always have your SNAP benefits. They’re for food only, so you’re not tempted to do without medicine to get food,” she told us.

[For more on this story by David Adler, Ginger Zielinskie, go to https://www.rwjf.org/en/cultur...res-bottom-line.html]

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