CA Food Stamp Program Routinely Denies Eligible Applicants

According to the Los Angeles Times, people who apply to the Calfresh program are purposefully denied food stamps, even when they are eligible.

The State of California employs tactics like purposefully confusing online applications, inhospitable benefits offices, and mountains of paperwork to discourage eligible applicants from applying and appealing unfair denials.

In addition to all of that, county benefits office workers are overworked, under-educated, and encouraged to deny applications….

California used to require fingerprinting to get food stamps, but public outrage killed that practice, even though then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican, of course) was all for it…

Review the L.A. Times article, here.