“I can’t be an effective parent when I’m hungry,” said Palmer mother Jessica Clayton, who's been eating less to feed her son as she awaits food stamps amid processing delays that have prompted a lawsuit against the state. (via AlaskaBeacon)
The last time Palmer resident Jessica Clayton received food stamps to help feed her and her 10-year-old son was Nov. 1. Clayton said Monday she’s feeling “hungry, frustrated and unheard, like I don’t matter, like my kid doesn’t matter.”
It took the state a month to reply to Clayton’s email. The Jan. 3 email acknowledged receipt of the recertification paperwork on Nov. 3 and her email on Dec. 1, and said, “We are working as quickly as possible to work through our recertifications. Thank you for your patience.” “At least [the state] could say, ‘Hey, we’ll definitely have you done by January,’ or something, then you know how long you have to wait it out. But this is an unknown; they could still turn me down. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just sitting in limbo with an open case,” Clayton said. “Like, did I do something wrong? At least tell me there’s a light at the end of my tunnel somewhere.”
Hedberg said there are three main causes for the backlog. One of them is outdated information technology systems used to determine eligibility, including one system that Hedberg said was created in 1959. A to the Senate committee said, “Fiscal crisis delayed efforts to modernize the system.”
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