Step 1 (optional): Take the pre-screening test here.
Step 2: Apply in one of the following ways:
- Print out an application here.
- Request or pick up an application from your local welfare office.
Step 3: After completing your application, mail, fax, or deliver it to your local welfare office.
Note: Find your local welfare office here.
For assistance, please call: 1-800-992-0900
Applying For Nevada Food Stamps
In order to assist low income people having problems affording food, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) was made. SNAP is often known as food stamps, since previously, colored stamps were given and used to buy food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as food stamps) helps millions of people. In fact, it helped more than 40 million folks in the year 2010.
Any individual inside the United States can apply for food stamps, regardless of their background, race, gender, or faith. The typical person acquired $101/month from the SNAP program in 2008, allowing them to purchase bread, milk products, meat, vegetables, fruits and even garden seeds.
In order to be accepted into the food stamp program, you have to fulfill certain monetary and situational requirements. Additionally, there are several documents an applicant will need during the food stamps application and interview process.
In the majority of instances, if you are under 60 years old, it is a requirement for you to not have any more than $2,000 in assets. If you or somebody in your home is at least 60 years old, that limit is raised to $3,000. Assistance from TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program), or SSI (Supplemental Security Income), don’t count as assets when applying for food stamps. Although, cash, what is in a bank account, and perhaps your current vehicle, are counted as assets.
There’s also an income limit, which will depend on the number of people residing in your home at the time that you apply for food stamps.
A person’s expenses are also taken into account when you apply for food stamps. If you’re paying for child or elderly care, rent, mortgage, or utilities; all of those costs will be taken into account. Certain medical expenses will also be considered under certain circumstances.
For a complete and detailed description of questions and materials as well as requirements for your interview, click here.
Before you are approved for food stamp benefits in Nevada, you must complete an interview with your case worker to further determine your eligibility in to the SNAP program.
What Questions Will I Be Asked In The Interview?
The main point of the interview is to make sure that the information presented on the food stamps application is correct and it is a chance to have an open dialogue with your case worker to make sure that all questions are answered.
Some of the things you may need to refer to during your interview include your income and asset information, your social security number, your employment information, and you also may need to refer to your bills and expenses.
Questions regarding your citizenship status, if you are a student, what type of vehicle you have, land or home that you own, whether you are on strike, pregnant, if you are 60 or over, if you are under the age of 16 and if you are disabled may be asked during your interview.
There is no need to be nervous during the interview because your case worker wants to help you receive the help you need and they may even suggest another avenue of benefits that you had not heard or thought of.
What Happens When I Am Accepted?
All those who pass the requirements and have their application approved to begin receiving SNAP benefits, will be given an EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) card. The EBT card may be used like a debit card to buy food at certain grocery stores, convenience stores, or even farmer markets.