Instead of buying all of her Thanksgiving meal in one fell swoop, Rebecca Raymond has purchased components of the feast here and there, each week, to keep her costs down.
Raymond, 48, lives in Montgomery in the state of New York with her husband and son. She has been unemployed since January, though she is slated to begin a new job just after the holiday. Her husband works, but his pre-tax salary is enough to keep the family from qualifying for assistance, like the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides benefits for low-income families to help them buy food, or food banks, Raymond said. “We didn’t get approved for the food pantry distribution for Thanksgiving,” she posted on Twitter on November 15.
