{"id":398013,"date":"2026-05-07T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/?p=398013"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:05:43","slug":"may-is-calfresh-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/may-is-calfresh-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"May is CalFresh Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CalFresh program helps individuals and families with little or no income buy nutritious foods. People age 60 and older and those with disabilities may have a higher income and still qualify for CalFresh.<\/p>\n<p>The easy-to-use CalFresh Food benefits\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdss.ca.gov\/ebt-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EBT debit card<\/a> works at most grocery stores \u2014 in person and online \u2014 including your favorite stores like Albertsons, Vons, Ralphs, Amazon, Walmart and Trader Joe\u2019s. CalFresh benefits can also be used at certain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KljSJfvm1XY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">farmers markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calfresh.dss.ca.gov\/food\/eligibility\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out if you&#8217;re eligible for CalFresh today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/calfresh\/\">visit our CalFresh webpage<\/a> or call 888-472-4463.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CalFresh program helps individuals and families with little or no income buy nutritious foods. People age 60 and older and those with disabilities may have a higher income and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 21:22:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}