Show Food Stamp Plan To Help Raise Utah Grocery Sales Gross sales of retail grocers in Utah will increase by over a million million million mil mil- lion dollars a year because of the new Food Stamp Program jointly administered by the Utah State Division of Welfare and the US U.S. Department of Agriculture ture the Sanpete County Welfare Welfare Welfare Wel Wel- fare Department reported this week The program will increase sales to over a million dollars a year in new purchasing power that did not exist before the Food Stamp Program was introduced said Morris Bunnell director of the Sanpete County Welfare Of Of- fice The object of the Food Stamp Program is to enable lower income income income in in- come families to buy better foods and have more nutritional meals Inadequate diet is recognized recognized recognized as a major contributing cause of poor health among families families families fam fam- with low incomes Poor health in turn reduces the ability ability ability abil abil- ity of its victims to perform productively and maintain self self- sufficiency Food stamps provide needy families with additional food purchasing power Under the program low-income low families purchase food stamps with a certain certain certain tain portion of their income and receive additional food stamps as a bonus without charge The stamps can be used just like cash to purchase food at any store participating in the program Food stamps cannot be used to purchase tobacco alcoholic beverages beverages beverages bev bev- most imported foods pet foods soaps household supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies or equipment or any other nonfood items Not only do families get the advantage of extra food money but we are discovering that participant participant participant par par- families are spending more of their own money for food than they did in the past Mr Bunnell said We are now convinced that especially for the children the program is achieving its nutritional nutritional nutritional objectives he stated Families and individuals receiving receiving receiving re re- public assistance who purchase and prepare their own food and others not receiving assistance assistance assistance as as- but whose incomes are comparable to those of welfare recipients are usually eligible for food stamps There is a gradual increase in inthe inthe inthe the number of persons participating participating participating in the Food Stamp Program Program Program Pro Pro- gram in Sanpete County People who are cert certified and participating ing in the Food Stamp Plan find it is a tremendous help to make the dollars go farther For detailed information on the Food Stamp Plan contact the Sanpete County Department of Public Welfare |