Saturday Oct 21, 2017 Wednesday Oct 25, 2017
Sat, Oct 21 thru Oct 25, 2017 at 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Camping World Stadium, 1 Citrus Bowl Place, Orlando, FL
Free. Register online at: https://foodforflorida-bc.dcf.state.fl.us/foodforflorida/frmWelcome.do?performAction=init
Adolfina Ortiz
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Department of Children and Families
Food for Florida is the name of Florida’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP). The Food for Florida program offers emergency food benefits to victims of hurricanes or other types of disasters, and is only active when there is a presidentially-declared disaster area in the state of Florida. The declaration must be for “individual assistance” and be approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services (FNS). Food for Florida provides benefits to applicants who are not currently receiving food benefits through regular SNAP. There are several income and asset requirements and the applicants must have been living in the declared disaster area at the time of the disaster. If eligible, recipients will receive disaster food assistance benefits that will be accessed using an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card.
D-SNAP Requirements
The Department may request to run a D-SNAP when the number of affected individuals is too great to be served through regular SNAP. The department and FNS have general guidelines to use when determining if a disaster program is warranted, such as widespread power outages that affect more than half of the individuals living in the disaster area. Households living in the disaster area must meet certain criteria to be eligible to receive D-SNAP benefits such as a loss of income due to the disaster, inaccessible resources, and incurring disaster expenses. The household must have experienced at least one of the following adverse effects to be eligible:
This program is not for current food assistance customers. Current food assistance households, not receiving the maximum amount, will get additional September/October benefits automatically added to their EBT cards.
10/21 – A - F
10/22 – G - J
10/23 – K - O
10/24 – P - Z
10/25 – Make-up Day