Texas food cards won't work in Louisiana
01:07 PM CDT on Thursday, September 18, 2008
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La.—Louisiana’s Department of Social Services says Louisiana residents who got hurricane food stamps in Texas and Texas food stamp recipients who evacuated to Louisiana need to exchange their food stamp cards.
The department says that can be done at a clinic for the “Women, Infants and Children” program.
The department says the Texas cards won’t work in Louisiana, and stores should refer anyone trying to use those cards to the local clinic for the “WIC” program.
It says that the state of Texas should have issued a verification card to Louisiana food stamp recipients when they got the Texas cards—and people need to bring that verification card, too.
Anyone with questions can call the Partners for Healthy Babies phone line at 1-800-251-2229. This only applies to food stamp recipients who evacuated to Louisiana.
