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Based upon what you said above as to having no income, it appears as if you have no excess shelter costs or need for the standard utility allowance deduction (used with housing costs +income +household size to determine allotment). And of course you are a separate household - you prepare and eat your food apart from your mother. Many families live under one roof, and each of those families or individuals need apply as separate households to ensure they receive benefits based on their income (or lack thereof) and shelter costs alone. It is those with income that are going to primarily suffer a loss of benefits, and I simply don't understand why the USDA has decided to change the amount allowed as a utility deduction. I'm going to get up to speed on this.
Regardless, as the article says, more than 869,000 Ohioans' will suffer increased food insecurity (gads, I despise that term), and with 46 million in the US living in poverty and 1 in 4 children going to bed hungry each and every night, this is unconscionable and should be criminal.
Hang in there, and know you have souls out here rooting for you and doing their level best to help those like you thru this time. It took Bush* eight years to destroy our economy, and it's going to take a while longer to get things running again.
