CBPP Releases Report on Cuts to Food Stamps
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a report on cuts to SNAP - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) today:
These individuals will lose their food assistance benefits after three months regardless of how hard they are looking for work.
In the past few years, the three-month limit hasn't been in effect in most states. The 1996 welfare law allows states to suspend the three-month limit in areas with high and sustained unemployment; many states qualified due to the Great Recession and its aftermath and waived the time limit throughout the state. But as unemployment rates fall, fewer and fewer areas will qualify for waivers.
The loss of benefits will likely increase hardship for these 1 million unemployed Americans who rely on upon SNAP to meet their basic nutritional needs.
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