Field Reports
SNAP Time Limit: A Direct Service Organization’s Guide to ABAWD and Screening for Exemptions in Mississippi
Thoa Hoang,
Emerson Fellow
Published 2016
Jackson, Mississippi
SNAP Time Limit: A Direct Service Organization’s Guide to ABAWD and Screening for Exemptions in Mississippi provides direct service organizations with a basic understanding of the SNAP time limit and the new requirements for ABAWDs. The report also includes tools and materials to help direct service organizations better serve unemployed childless adults who may lose their SNAP benefits.
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Publication tags: Field Reports - ABAWD, Advocacy and Education, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)/Food Stamps - Advocates (including legal advocates), Policymakers, Service Providers
Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and raised in San Jose, California, Thoa graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015 with a dual degree in political economy and social welfare. Thoa engaged in outreach with Working Partnership, a workers’ rights organization in the Bay Area, and served with the Lead the Vote campaign, which registered more than 14,000 new Vietnamese and Latino voters. At UC Berkeley, she was active in the Southeast Asian Student Coalition and coordinated the 2013 Summer Institute, which brought together 36 Southeast Asian high school students from across the United States to learn about the social and historical impacts of the Vietnam War.
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