Thirty-one states elected lieutenant governors in November 2010, a lower number than the record 37 gubernatorial races held that year due to the fact that six U.S. states at the time did not have an office of the lieutenant governor and that one state, Tennessee, automatically makes its Senate President Pro Tem into the lieutenant governor.
To check your food stamp status, call the EBT customer service line for your state, or visit your state's EBT website. Each state's EBT customer service number and website is listed on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service website.
Food stamp applicants can be denied for failure to comply, but should not be hit with durational sanctions. Under federal rules, the steps that a food stamp agency must follow before imposing a sanction are completely inconsistent with the imposition of a sanction at the application stage. This provision can also be relied on during the fair hearing process, if the person becomes exempt while the fair hearing is pending. No sanction should be imposed even if there was no good reason for the original act of non-compliance. 4. Food stamp recipients have 10 days to contest their employability.