To: Governor Gina Raimondo
Hot Food for SNAP Recipients
It is high time that the policy presenting people who receive food assistance be changed to enable the purchase of a hot meal. Not only is it a waste of energy to reheat the food, but rising numbers of constituents have no utilities or are homeless. It's time for a change.
Why is this important?
It's time we did away with the policy preventing food stamp recipients from purchasing hot food. From an energy standpoint this is wasteful because people have to reheat the food. From a social standpoint there are rising numbers of homeless people who have nowhere to heat the food. This is an ill conceived practice.