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Economic & Employment Services Food Assistance

Program Overview

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides qualifying low-income households with food benefits, access to a healthy diet and education on food preparation and nutrition. In Kansas, the program is known as the Food Assistance Program.


The Food Assistance Program serves as the first line of defense against hunger. It provides crucial support to elderly households, to low-income working households, to other low income households that include the unemployed or disabled and to households transitioning from welfare to work. Food assistance customers can spend their benefits to buy eligible nutritious food and plants and seeds to grow food for their household to eat.


 
 
 
S​ummer EBT​ - also known as SUN Bucks in some other states, is a new program to help families buy food for their school-aged children during the summer.

Food Assistance Application Assistance (SNAP Outreach)​Receive Assistance in filling out the Food Assistance Application and/or determine if you are eligible to apply for food ​

Foo​d Assistance Nutrition Education (SNAP-ED) - including free classes on nutrition, cooking and physical activity
 
 
 
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