Lee County is listed as being eligible for food assistance due to recent flooding

USDA announced that people in the counties listed below may be eligible for food assistance through USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP).

Eligible counties include Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Lee, Letcher, Martin, Owsley, Perry, Pike, and Simpson Counties. 

Kentucky will share additional information about D-SNAP application dates and locations through local media. Kentucky will operate its virtual and in-person D-SNAP application March 5, 2025, through March 7, 2025. 

To be eligible for D-SNAP, a household must either live or work in an identified disaster area, have been affected by the disaster, and meet certain D-SNAP eligibility criteria. Eligible households will receive one month of benefits – equal to the maximum monthly amount for a SNAP household of their size – that they can use to purchase groceries at SNAP-authorized stores or from select retailers online to meet their temporary food needs as they settle back home following the disaster. 

Although current SNAP households are not eligible for D-SNAP, USDA has also approved Kentucky to automatically issue supplemental SNAP benefits to current SNAP households in the 14 approved counties to bring their allotment up to the maximum amount for their household size if they don’t already receive that amount.

For more information about Kentucky SNAP, visit Kynect Benefits. 

For more information about this and other available aid, callers from Kentucky can dial 2-1-1.