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Ms. Grimmer grew up in Montana and had been living in Ohio in 2005 when she divorced her husband and the children’s father, Dale R. Grimmer. By 2010 s he had moved to Texas, and in recent months she an d her children seemed to have no permanent address. In September 2010, the family was staying in a ten t on a beach on the South Texas coast. In Laredo, they lived at a mobile home park in a small traile r with a cracked wall. Neighbors and park workers would help them with groceries and cash. Ms. Grimm er sold her truck, forcing the family to walk long distances around town. Janie Rodriguez, the manager of Towne North Mobile Home and RV Park, said that Ms. Grimmer often tol d her she was frustrated by the state’s refusal to give her benefits and that, one day weeks ago, sh e showed her a fax receipt for documents she had s ent the social services office. “I do blame the st ate,” Ms. Rodriguez said. “She was a very intellig ent person and a very wonderful person, a very goo d mother. She was not mentally ill. The state neve r came to see how she was living.” The children were not enrolled in local schools, b ut were being home-schooled. The state’s child wel fare agency, the Department of Family and Protecti ve Services, had come in contact with the family a t least twice before. After receiving a report of possible neglect, inve stigators from the agency checked on the family in September 2010, when they were living on the beac h. But the children appeared to be taken care of, and Ms. Grimmer had food and money, so the case wa s closed, a department spokesman said. In June, Ms . Grimmer told the police in Corpus Christi that s he had been a victim of domestic violence. The age ncy checked on her and the children but had no con cerns, said the spokesman, Patrick Crimmins.
Ms. Grimmer had first applied for food stamps at t he Laredo social services office on July 7. She di d not meet the criteria to receive benefits within 24 hours because she was receiving child support. But an employee scheduled a time with Ms. Grimmer for someone to call her the next day to review he r case, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Hum an Services Commission said. A caseworker called t wice but was unable to reach her, the spokeswoman said. A letter was sent to Ms. Grimmer asking her to res chedule, and the appointment was set for July 22. On that day, a caseworker interviewed Ms. Grimmer by phone and explained what information was needed , said the spokeswoman, Stephanie Goodman. Though Ms. Grimmer turned in some of the paperwork, she d id not supply materials verifying the amount of ch ild support she had been receiving monthly, Ms. Go odman said. On Aug. 8, the case was closed, and Ms. Grimmer wa s sent a letter informing her that she had been de nied food stamp benefits because of the missing in formation, Ms. Goodman said. In Texas, benefits applications are approved more often than they are denied: in the past six months , 85 percent of cases statewide were approved, and the median number of days to process an applicati on was 12, the agency said. In mid-November, Ms. Grimmer called the agency’s o mbudsman office, saying that she disagreed with th e reason she was denied benefits. A supervisor cal led her on Dec. 1 but could not reach her. No one in the Laredo office heard from her until she walk ed in on Monday. The agency is reviewing its handling of Ms. Grimme r’s case. “I think we did everything we could,” sa id Thomas M. Suehs, the commissioner of health and
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