My neighbor is bringing dinner up to the apartment tonight

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My downstairs neighbor and I are good friends. We've had dinner together several times. We exchanged Christmas gifts last year. I watched her dog while she was out of the state for several days. Anyway she has told me a few times between her disability check and the child support she receives she lives on $2000 a month. Rent here is almost $1300. Then she has her car payment, utilities, cell phone and cable bills, credit card bills, etc. She does get some assistance with utilities because her income is under a certain limit. She was getting something stupid like $45 in food stamps but with COVID relief and whatever else it has been jacked up to several hundred dollars per month. She didn't know that and discovered that she had $1400 in her account. So what did she do? She hosted Thanksgiving for her sister, nephew, and son. She made a tiny turkey and also served lobster tails and snow crab legs. I don't even know how she is allowed to buy lobster tails and crab legs with food stamps. I don't even buy lobster tails! Sooooo she has 3 extra packages of them and her son has visitation with his father tonight. She is going to bring 2 packs up here along with some leftovers from Thanksgiving. I'm not going to say no to free lobster. I just can't believe she can buy it with food stamps.