After rescheduling a previous vote, Colorado Board of Health and Human Services will decide on April 3rd whether to implement the “Healthy Choice Waiver,” which would limit the purchase of certain beverages with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
For nearly six hours earlier this month, advocates shuffled into the Health and Human Services Board meeting to share commentary on why this waiver is not what it says it is.
I was there to comment as a SNAP participant who provides for me and my son in Denver. I have gone on and off SNAP as I face dire economic challenges as a single-parent-led household. As of 2024, close to 32% of Denver’s children are living in single-parent-led households, and I represent one of the 17,100 homes with single moms in the city, and a part of the 19% of single parents in the state of Colorado…