Petition updateExpand Online Food Stamps NationwideStates, Congresspeople, and Americans on SNAP plead for food stamp online payment and delivery.
Charlie HoffsPalo Alto, CA, United States
Apr 6, 2020

Call your Congresspeople: act to enable SNAP and WIC benefits for online grocery purchase and delivery. Want to get involved? Join the movement.

Read the untold stories of homebound food stamp users:

"Yvonne Knight, who has respiratory problems that make her especially vulnerable in the coronavirus pandemic, can't buy groceries online with her food stamps — even though each trip to the store is now a risky endeavor.

Going out to buy food terrifies the 38-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, but she is one of millions of people who receive food aid through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that can't be used in flexible ways.

'Every time I go out, I put myself at risk — and other people,' said Knight, who lives in Erie, Pennsylvania. 'I’m so terrified when people come up to me now. I don’t want to go out to the store.'

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