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Sampson Independent
April 4, 2018
An idea from the Trump administration to replace a food stamp method of receiving meal assistance started controversy around the United States. The plan labeled “America's Harvest Box” calls for recipients to receive a pre-assembled box of food instead of a traditional cash-on-a-card method through theÃâà...
ideastream
April 4, 2018
That's because most of the spending goes not to farmers but to the food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Fudge is afraid adults who cannot find work in economically struggling areas will be kicked out off the rolls. “Not that they don't wish to work, I don'tÃâà...
Truth-Out
April 4, 2018
Enter Double Up Food Bucks, a program that doubles Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, commonly known as food stamps) benefits for recipients shopping at participating farmers markets or ... "If we are going to be spending food stamp dollars, this is where we need to be spending them.
KTTS
April 4, 2018
The Missouri House has passed legislation to require parents receiving food stamps to comply with work requirements or face losing benefits. Lawmakers voted 107-43 Tuesday to send the bill to the Senate. The measure is aimed at requiring able-bodied parents aided by the Supplemental NutritionÃâà...
WJXT News4JAX
April 4, 2018
As a result, investigators concluded that she was not legally eligible to receive $7,015 in food stamp benefits she collected from October 2015 through December 2016. Clark was arrested March 10 and booked into the Sumter County jail on a third-degree felony charge of welfare fraud, jail records show.
cleveland.com
April 3, 2018
Larissa Rodriguez and Nancy Caraballo entered the plea Monday, admitting to charges that accused them of running a bribery scheme that saw Caraballo withhold reports of child neglect or abuse in exchange for some of Rodriguez's food stamps. Rodriguez pleaded guilty to trafficking in food stamps,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
Second jobs have become a necessity for many teachers in Oklahoma, which ranks near the bottom annually in educator salaries. April 3, 2018, at 1:07 a.m.. April 3, 2018, at 1:07 a.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Oklahoma Teacher: 'I'd Be on Food Stamps' Without Second Job. More. This combination ofÃâà...
MyAJC
April 3, 2018
Georgia's lawmakers on Capitol Hill are staking out opposing positions in the mushrooming battle over food stamps, contributing to a partisan impasse that threatens to stall one of the last major pieces of legislation Congress must pass this year. At the heart of the disagreement is a proposal that wouldÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 2, 2018
Republican members of the Missouri Legislature are intent on making sure that able-bodied adults without dependents have to work for their food stamps instead of slacking off. But the effort could be in trouble. It's not really a very big problem, and lawmakers have doled out so many tax breaks there isn'tÃâà...
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
March 10, 2018
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The West Virginia Senate has voted 27-6 to impose the federal 20-hour weekly work requirement for many food stamp recipients statewide. It would apply to people ages 18 to 49 who aren't pregnant, disabled or military veterans, have no dependent children and getÃâà...
West Virginia MetroNews
March 10, 2018
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Houses of West Virginia's Legislature worked out a disagreement over a bill dealing with food stamp eligibility. The bill has been controversial all session long. On Saturday morning, the House of Delegates refused to concur, 62-36, with changes to the bill that were made in theÃâà...
WSAZ-TV
March 10, 2018
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The West Virginia Senate has voted 27-6 to impose the federal 20-hour weekly work requirement for many food stamp recipients statewide. It would apply to people ages 18 to 49 who aren't pregnant, disabled or military veterans, have no dependent children and getÃâà...
ABC News
March 10, 2018
Food stamp administrators across the country are expressing reservations about "America's Harvest Box," pitched by Agriculture Department officials as a way to cut costs and improve efficiency. The government is proposing to replace the debit card-type program with a pre-assembled box of shelf-stableÃâà...
The Hill
March 9, 2018
The Trump administration has put out a call for ideas on how to get people on food stamps back to work, but anti-hunger advocates fear it's a first step toward a new rule that would kick thousands of unemployed people out of the program. Federal law prohibits unemployed adults aged 18 to 49 who are notÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 3, 2018
The number of Tennesseans receiving food stamps dropped under 1 million for the first time in a decade at the start of 2018 as the state's improving economy helped lift more Tennesseans out of poverty, according to new state figures. About one of every seven Tennesseans was enrolled in the federallyÃâà...
The CT Mirror
March 3, 2018
Washington – Single, unemployed adults without children who receive food stamps in Connecticut may soon see those benefits end under new regulations being considered by the Trump administration. Trump has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to consider work requirements for recipients of theÃâà...
Auburn Citizen (blog)
March 2, 2018
Schumer: Trump administration's proposed food stamp cuts 'deplorable' ... proposed 2019 budget that would cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps, by more than ... Counties in central New York would face steep reductions in food stamp aid.
Berkshire Eagle
March 2, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration recently proposed massive, across-the-board cuts to food stamps. ... per-meal benefit allowed by the food stamp program to the average cost of meals purchased by low-income households in the U.S. It found that, in 99 percent of counties, those meals regularlyÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 23, 2018
The Trump administration has taken its first step toward imposing stricter work requirements on food stamp recipients. The USDA began soliciting public input to "promote work and self-sufficiency" in the federal food stamp program on Friday, kicking off the process required to implement changes to the rulesÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
February 22, 2018
Got ideas for getting getting able-bodied people back to work and off of food stamps? The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to know. The agency is soliciting ideas from the public that promote "work and self-sufficiency among able-bodied adults participating in the Supplemental Nutrition AssistanceÃâà...
CNNMoney
February 22, 2018
The Agriculture Department said in December that it would work with states to "promote self-sufficiency" and give them greater local control over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps. The food stamp program already requires childless adults to work.
CNNMoney
February 13, 2018
Republicans have long wanted to downsize food stamps, known formally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. They argue that the program is ... As of fiscal 2016, 44% of food stamp recipients are children, and 12% were senior citizens older than age 60. The rest were working-ageÃâà...
