Establishes a Restaurant Meals Program under SNAP for eligible households to redeem benefits at private establishments.
The bill creates a Restaurant Meals Program as part of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Massachusetts. This program allows households with elderly or disabled members, and their spouses, or homeless individuals to redeem their SNAP benefits at private establishments that contract with the Department of Transitional Assistance to offer meals. The Department of Transitional Assistance will adopt necessary rules to implement this program.
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