Food stamp coupon based on my life

One of the stars of the classic sitcom “Everybody Hates Chris” says that for the comedy on the series, she brought out a serious topic from her own childhood.

A memorable episode of the popular CW show, inspired by Chris Rock’s upbringing, was about food stamps.

Chris’s fictional dad finds $ 200 worth of coupons, but his mom – who was played by Tichina Arnold – refuses to use them because, he says, “when I pull out food stamps, people look at me like I don’t have a husband without; they talk to me like I don’t make sense; they treat me like I don’t have a class ”.

Arnold tells Page Six that the episode was based on her own family.

“The food stamp episode was totally my mother because it really happened to me,” she told us, “My dad once bought homemade food stamps and my mother said,” I don’t use any food stamps. ” This is not bad.”

“You have many mothers who have had children who have fed their children with food cards but never told them they were fed with food cards,” she added.

The Complementary Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is designed to help low-income parents feed their families. To qualify for SNAP, households must have an annual gross income of $ 25,760 if there is one person in the house, $ 34,840 if there is two, and $ 43,920 if there are three.

The series was broadcast from 2005 to 2009.

Arnold also says she grew up with processed cheese known as “government cheese” that was supplied to US welfare recipients until the early 1980s.

“Of course I had the government cheese. Everyone had government cheese. This is a cheese you don’t know what the government put in that cheese. You can put it in the oven for seven hours and it won’t melt, she said, “I don’t miss government cheese, but it was the moment that made us stronger.”

Arnold will be the host Inaugural presentation of Paramount music in New York.