BATON ROUGE — State aid workers said Wednesday that a heavy volume of calls from people seeking to supplement their food stamp benefits after Hurricane Francine temporarily caused problems as the application period opened.
The Department of Children and Family Services says President Joe Biden’s declaration of an emergency in southern Louisiana following the storm qualified benefits recipients for additional aid. The application for Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds opened Wednesday for recipients whose last names begin with a letter from A to G.
“Call volumes are typically high on the first day of a DSNAP operation, including people calling outside of their designated day (by last name),” DCFS spokeswoman Heidi Rogers Kinchen said…