SNAP OUTREACH PROGRAM

According to the Center on Budget and Policy, New Mexicans who qualify and receive the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits include:

  • More than 70 percent are families and children
  • More than 46 percent are in working families who are low-income and qualify for the benefit
  • Almost 25 percent are in households who are elderly and disabled.

SNAP is the nation’s largest nutrition program and provides access to groceries for New Mexicans facing food insecurity.  It helps families facing hunger with access to healthy and nutritious food such as fruits and vegetables available to purchase with the benefit at grocery stores and farmer’s markets. These supplemental funds help ease the financial burden families face, allowing the to preserve their small incomes for rent, prescriptions and necessary living expenses.

The monthly benefit is application based and helps anyone who is income eligible including working families, single individuals, seniors, people with disabilities, and people who are unemployed. SNAP benefits are typically issued once a monthly through a debit/ETB card.

As one of the most food insecure states in the country, this program is important to the people of New Mexico. SNAP benefits can be used right in their local community and have a local impact too.  SNAP contributes $1.54 in local economic activity for every $1 in SNAP utilized.

SNAP Outreach and Application Assistance

There are many barriers that prohibit eligible families from successfully participating in the SNAP program.  They are often are not informed about the program and have not yet applied to receive them.

Roadrunner Food Bank’s SNAP Outreach Program works to reduce some of these barriers and increase participation in this important program. By providing SNAP application assistance, more New Mexicans can become informed about their potential eligibility and learn important information about how they can obtain benefits.

Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico provides help to those who would like to apply for SNAP or re-certify for the benefit.  A majority of our application assistance occurs by phone, as well as in person at various community outreach events.  In addition, we also train many other member partners, organizations, nonprofits, and volunteers how to walk people through the application as a service to their clients.

SNAP Outreach Hotline

Our staff and dedicated volunteers can help answer any questions, pre-screen for potential eligibility, help you with information about how the process works, assist you in successfully completing an application and connect you with other valuable resources all over the telephone. Here are ways to apply for SNAP:

  • Start by completing this short online form
  • You can also call toll-free at 844.684.6268 or email snap@rrfb.org Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4 pm.
  • Feel free to apply directly to the State of New Mexico’s online service called YESNM.

Note: SNAP benefits in New Mexico are provided by the State of New Mexico’s Health and Human Services Department.

SNAP Training and Volunteers

Roadrunner Food Bank SNAP Outreach staff can train organizations, nonprofits, and volunteers to how to help clients fill out the SNAP application and offer this service to clients on a consistent basis. Our training focuses on the online application, although we do have paper copies of the SNAP application available. Organizations and volunteers wishing to receive a training should contact us.