Professional Documents
Culture Documents
ile a new name is still being developed for the California branch. The purpose of this program is to provide money to fam
go over your application as well as help you to complete it. You must bring all required documents to this meeting, and if
rocessed, are long, with 32% of people waiting for 4 or more hours. Also, this process can take up to five visits. Many peop
What has the county done to fix the problems, if anything?
The city has taken few approaches to make the food stamp application process less
tedious. Family resource centers are no moving on from individual staff members to a group
of caseworkers. They believe that applying more people to each case, the effort can be
completed sooner. Their attempt to provide a more plausible customer service includes the
efforts to have less office visits, and allows same day personal interviews. Larger groups of
staff are able to process applications and make final decisions more quickly.
Another time saver has been the allowance of phone interviews rather than personal
interviews. This is only under specific circumstances though. To have a phone interview you
must be disabled, ill, unable to find transportation, or difficulties due to busy work schedules.
er of people that are eligible, as well as make it more clear who is eligible and who isn’t. They need to shorten wait times, m
y to help. Knowledge of local issues is the first step to fixing problems. Encourage community leaders to take initiative an