New Food Assistance Rules for Every Senior Start October — the Denial in Your File Is Out of Date

If you were told your income was too high for food help, the number they used may have left out the one thing that was supposed to come off it first — what you pay for your own health. In this program you count as elderly at sixty, not sixty five, and medical costs above thirty five dollars a month come off before anybody judges you. In plain language, no jargon: 00:00 — The number they judged you on, and the box nobody asked you to fill 01:01 — 1. In this program old starts at sixty, not sixty five 02:32 — 2. Everything past thirty five dollars a month comes off first 03:40 — 3. What counts is far wider than medicine — including the Medicare premium already leaving your Social Security 05:30 — 4. The one thing people claim that never counts, and gets the file refused 06:17 — The government's own arithmetic: $1,200 in, $434 of food help back 07:22 — What I cannot tell you from here 07:55 — The four again, and the exact words to say on the phone 08:50 — The call nobody legitimate makes, and one question for your family Programs named: SNAP (food stamps), Medicare, Social Security. The rule is called the excess medical expenses deduction. This is general information, not advice about your own circumstances. Every state runs this its own way and sets its own paperwork. Applying is free. Asking is free. #SNAP #FoodStamps #SeniorBenefits #Seniors #Medicare #SocialSecurity #FixedIncome #SeniorsOver60 #FoodAssistance #MedicalExpenses #BenefitsForSeniors #Retirement