美属维尔京群岛3,755户家庭获自动补发SNAP补助：停电损失食物按上月补助30%补发，11月7日已到账
美属维尔京群岛 — 总督 Albert Bryan Jr. 11 月 9 日在每周政府大楼吹风会上宣布，圣托马斯与圣约翰共有 3755 户家庭已获得自动补发的补充营养援助计划 SNAP 补助，以弥补 10 月下旬长时间停电造成的食物损失。
维尔京群岛政府称，补发补助已于 11 月 7 日星期六直接存入合资格家庭的电子福利转账 EBT 卡。联邦农业部此前批准了群岛政府的申请，豁免通常所需的逐户申请与宣誓书程序，受助家庭获补金额为其上月 SNAP 补助额的 30%，无需逐一提出申请。
Bryan 在吹风会上表示，对本已收支紧绷的家庭而言，损失一冰箱食物是沉重的财务负担，政府不希望民众排队或填表来补回因停电损失的食物，因此向联邦政府提出申请并将补助直接发到 EBT 卡上。他同时感谢人类服务专员 Averil George 及其团队的快速处理，并表示群岛电力可靠性仍需继续改善。
同场吹风会还公布了退伍军人大道二期工程推进、18 个机会区获联邦批准等事项，与本次 SNAP 补发分属不同事项。
（来源：美属维尔京群岛政府）
3,755 U.S. Virgin Islands Households Get Automatic Replacement SNAP Benefits After Power Outages: 30 Percent of the Prior Month Allotment, Deposited November 7
U.S. Virgin Islands — Governor Albert Bryan Jr. announced on November 9 that 3,755 households on St. Thomas and St. John have received automatic replacement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits following the prolonged power outages in late October, to help families who lost food during the electrical disruptions.
The replacement benefits were deposited directly onto eligible households Electronic Benefit Transfer cards on Saturday, November 7, the territorial government said. The deposits followed federal approval of a request to waive the normal application and affidavit requirements, and affected households received replacement benefits equal to 30 percent of their previous month SNAP allotment without submitting individual applications, through the Virgin Islands Department of Human Services and authorization from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For families already struggling to make ends meet, losing a refrigerator full of groceries is a serious financial burden, Governor Bryan said at his weekly Government House briefing. We did not want people standing in lines or filling out paperwork to replace food they lost because of the outages. We went to the federal government, requested the assistance and got it directly onto their EBT cards.
The governor thanked Human Services Commissioner Averil George and her team for their swift response, while acknowledging the continuing need to improve electrical reliability throughout the territory. The same briefing covered separate announcements on the Veterans Drive Phase 2 project and federal approval of 18 Opportunity Zones.
(Source: Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands)
来源：美属维尔京群岛政府
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