![]() ![]() “I was denied because my car was over the income limit. “When I got my five grandkids, I went to apply for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,” Bristol said. ![]() The current SNAP policy in Texas - which was set in 2001 - disqualified applicants whose primary vehicle was valued at $15,000 or more and had additional vehicles valued at $4,650 or more. Texas looks at a household’s income but also factors in the value of a household’s cars, known as the vehicle asset test. Bristol and TXGRG, which helps other grandparents tasked with raising their grandkids, spent months trying to get House Bill 1287 passed in this year’s regular legislative session.Īlthough SNAP is a federal program that allows families access to food stamps, each state can set different requirements for eligibility. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that will enable thousands more Texans to qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that provides financial assistance, commonly referred to as food stamps. She was tending both to her work as head of the nonprofit Texas Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and getting her youngest grandson Paul Chavez ready for a mariachi concert in the afternoon.īristol also had reason to celebrate the end of the work week: Days earlier, Gov. Mercedes Bristol spent a recent Friday morning in her suburban San Antonio home sending emails, combing hair, answering calls and doing laundry for her grandson. ![]() “We’re called the invisible foster care, the hidden foster care, nobody knows about this group of people that are raising grandchildren,” Bristol said. Bristol is the primary caretaker of her five grandchildren, including Paul, who is the youngest. so I tried working with them on some kind of payment.but they were assholes, mean and idiots.this is a shitty place and the employees should feel like shit for harassing people especially when they are sick.Well my mom past away a few month later and thank you Lonestar for making her last months of her life miserable.you uncaring assholes.Mercedes Bristol, 68, executive director of Texas Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, left, and her youngest grandson, Paul Chavez, 12, hold each other in their front yard in San Antonio on June 16, 2023. ![]() What my mom did was put my nieces car in hawk without my niece knowing the situation, which wasn't a good situation. Next thing the phone calls started coming in 3 to 4 times a day and I tried explaining the situation and at first they were sympathetic.I couldn't pay the loan because I found out my mom was deep in debt and I tried bailing her out.anyways to make a long story short they called everyday and threatened her and even came over to her house while I was there demanding payment. My mom got a title loan and at the same time she unfortunalty got diagnosed with stage four cancer.When I found out my mother was sick I took over her bills while she was bed ridden at a SA hospital.Come to find out she had took out a $1000.00 car title loan about a few months before. 6516 Bandera Rd, San Antonio, TX 78238, USA ![]()
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