We are fighting so no one has to choose between paying their rent, their medical or food.

See if you qualify for SNAP benefits or how to perhaps increase your current benefits:

Contact Project Bread at 1-800-645-8333 or learn more online by clicking here.

Meeting With Decision makers to make positive change:

In April 2021, our food insecurity working group met with Congresswoman Clark. Read the remarks from our member AnnaMarie , who asked the Congresswoman to maintain COVID-19 SNAP increases and increase income eligibility:

“My name is AnnaMarie Russo. I live in Malden, and I am a member of the MSAC food insecurity campaign. 

COVID-19 highlighted what many of us seniors already knew to be true. Healthy food is hard to access because of higher cost and because of inadequate options for transportation to, or delivery from, stores that sell healthier foods. 

This is particularly true for Massachusetts seniors, as our state is ranked lowest in the nation for senior economic security, which is a measure based on key factors of food, healthcare, and housing. 

I know this kind of insecurity from my own personal experience last year when I was having difficulty paying for some necessary but very expensive dental care. I applied for SNAP, but unfortunately was denied as my income was slightly over the income eligibility limit.

But thank goodness for the pandemic increase in SNAP benefits to $234 a month! That increase was a lifeline for so many seniors and families. Mass Senior Action Council would like to see the SNAP benefit increased as it was during the pandemic. Seniors incomes did not increase when the covid emergency stopped.

We know there is discussion of increasing the SNAP benefit from $16 a month, which it was pre-pandemic, to $30 a month. This would be an improvement, but would do little to improve access to healthier food, which is more expensive.”