What Is The New SNAP Work Requirement?

A new work requirement went into effect Sunday for recipients to receive benefits from the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The requirement is for recipients between 18 and 65 years old. Click here to learn more.

If You Or Someone You Know Needs Help Finding Food

• NJ 2-1-1 contains a resource directory of more than 500 food programs across New Jersey that may be able to help with fresh groceries, prepared meals, baby food, and more.
• The Lemontree Food Helpline can help residents find food pantries or soup kitchen serving freshly-prepared meals.
• The New Jersey Department of Health’s Commodity Supplemental Food Program offers food packages to low-income seniors 60 and older.

Table to Table is New Jersey’s first and largest food rescue nonprofit, bridging the gap between food being wasted and people facing food insecurity. We bring rescued fresh, nutritious food to 303 community partners, including social service organizations, pantries, shelters, fresh produce markets and centralized distribution hubs. Food is provided free of charge. Through this, Table to Table touches a diversity of those in need, including families, children, veterans, and older adults, making good nutrition accessible while serving as a stimulus for other longer-term benefits. Since 1999 we have rescued more than 120,700 tons of nutritious food—enough for 241,400,846 million meals—and delivered it to our neighbors in need, saving over 544 metric tons of methane saved.

Related:

• A Message on SNAP and NJ’s Looming Food Security Crisis
• Table to Table Statement on Federal Government Shutdown & SNAP Benefits
• North Jersey Food Banks Brace for Disruption to SNAP Benefits Amid Government Shutdown