The main objective of the SNAP Food Stamps program is to ensure an improvement in the likelihood that the individuals who are eligible for SNAP will make choices that are healthy and that are within a trimmed budget as well as being able to choose lifestyles that are consistent with the present healthy dietary guidelines for Myplate and Americans. Detailed information about this can be found at http://dpaweb.hss.state.ak.us
For one to be able to receive the food stamps in Alaska, it is important certain requirements be met. All those who benefit from the program must be living in the state and be citizens of the US, eligible aliens or be US residents by nationality. Those who are able and are between 16 and 59 years in age are supposed to work or have themselves registered to perform duties. In case the applicants are jobless, it is necessary that they agree to take any kind employment offered and ensure that they participate fully in the Alaska Employment and Training Program if by any chance it is made available to them. It is good to note that one is not allowed to abandon work once he or she is employed so long as she or he is on the food stamps.
An eligible household should not be more than the asset as well as the household income limits. When the total of everyone in your household is combined, it must be less than both the net income and the gross income maximums. Gross income in this case refers to the total wages while the net income is simply the difference between the gross income and the total expenditures for childcare, housing and medical. The law enacted in 2011 forbade anyone to hold assets that amounted to $2,000 like bank accounts, stocks; real estate and cash not for sale and those who met this requirement were therefore eligible for the program.