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In accordance with recent guidelines handed down from Richmond, the Rappahannock Welfare Department is conducting a new food stamp outreach with special emphasis on the aged and migrant workers as target groups.
The food stamp program is aimed at helping low-income households buy the food needed for good health. Recipients must meet criteria on income and resources, with certain exceptions, all able-bodied people between 18 and 60 years of age must register for work, search for a job and accept any offers of a suitable job in order to qualify for food stamps.
But despite these and other limitations, the general public persists in viewing food stamps as another federal give-away to undeserving idlers who refuse to work. Statistics for Rappahannock, however, show clearly that this general view is unsupportable.
As of June, 1980, 194 county households were receiving food stamps, according to food stamp eligibility worker Janice Moffett. Of that total, 99 were over the age of 65 and getting social security payments or disabled, and receiving supplemental security income. “Contrary to public opinion, a high percentage of our caseload is made up of the aged," Moffett noted.
Many of the county’s food stamp recipients are employed. according to the eligibility worker. “We have households working 40 hours a week for a S50 salary,” she
90.6%