Service-members on Food Stamps

i use to be on WIC when i was a SPC but it only paid for formula and later on milk and cereal. after i made SGT and my wife started working we no longer need it and removed our selfs from WIC. It helped out a lot, my wife was able to stay home with our new born and we did not have to live paycheck to paycheck.

We always qualified for WIC and with 6 children, I had no qualms with partaking of this program. I never envisioned it as a hand out but more of hand up. Have you seen the price of baby formula? It's almost criminal! And one of sons had to be on a special type of formula, which also happened to be the most expensive. And every federal gov't program takes the "total family income" into consideration, so yes, they do count your BAS and BAH. The "food stamp" is run by each state, so that may differ but WIC is federal. It only goes until the child 5yrs old and every 3 months my wife had to turn in a copy of my LES to verify our eligibility.

Me personal y no. Our unit went to Bliss 3 years in a row for our AT back in the 90s and I used to see it at PX. It was always young soldiers with young families. Looked like they were barely out of high school let alone basic training. It killed me too see it because these kids are defending our county but couldn't make it on a military salary & benefits??

Granted people all around get in financial trouble due to some bad decisions or vices and granted some of our young soldiers may not have proper guidance on family issues, after all, we all come from different walks of life From my point of view, this was not what I was seeing here. What I was seeing was the system failing our soldiers.