The Food Stamps Program is an assistance project designed to provide food purchasing aid for individuals who live on low income. A food stamp works like a debit card from a bank.

Qualified individuals can get food stamps from the local Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and use them to buy food at most grocery stores in the United States. The benefits of food stamps not only affect the low income families who are in need of money to buy food, but the local economy as well.

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