Unemployment Affects on SNAP (Food Stamps) & Health Insurance (Medicaid, Medi-Cal, Covered CA)

With 40 million people applying for unemployment there are many questions about how unemployment benefits effect the other needs-based benefits that people may be receiving. This is because right now many people are receiving very generous benefits from standard Unemployment Insurance in addition to Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) or Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) money. These additional benefits may have effect on someone’s eligibility for the various assistance programs. It is possible that the extra money could cause somebody to lose eligibility for some of the needs-based benefits they previously had. Today we are going talk about how Unemployment benefit including PUA / PUEC money will affect some of the biggest assistance program in America like: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),Food stamps, Cal-Fresh, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, and Health insurance through the Obamacare or state exchanges like Covered California. If you like this information, please do not forget to like and subscribe.

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