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sunwyn

(494 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 05:36 AM Aug 2013

Food Stamp Cuts Would Deny Benefits To At Least 4 Million: CBPP

Another one from the "Hurry up and die" crowd. It's never enough. My mother's food stamps benefits of 132 dollars are about to slated to be trimmed because her 681 Social Security is too high. And now this?


Food Stamp Cuts Would Deny Benefits To At Least 4 Million: CBPP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/food-stamp-cuts_n_3780362.html


WASHINGTON -- A Republican proposal to cut food stamp spending by 5 percent would eliminate benefits for as many as 6 million Americans, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal D.C. think tank.

Republicans have said the forthcoming measure, which will combine stricter eligibility standards with new work requirements, will reduce Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending by $40 billion over 10 years.

"House Republican leaders haven’t formally released the language of their plan, but the information they have made available makes clear that the proposal will be very harsh, denying SNAP to at least four million to six million low-income people, including some of the nation’s poorest adults, as well as many low-income children, seniors, and families that work for low wages," the CBPP's Dottie Rosenbaum, Stacy Dean, and Robert Greenstein said in a report published Monday.

A key part of the new legislation would stop states from waiving SNAP's work requirements for able-bodied childless adults, something more than 45 states currently do because of high unemployment. Working-age Americans without kids would have to either work 20 hours a week or engage in "work activities" that could include training or volunteering.

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Food Stamp Cuts Would Deny Benefits To At Least 4 Million: CBPP (Original Post) sunwyn Aug 2013 OP
This is just plain evil newfie11 Aug 2013 #1

newfie11

(8,159 posts)
1. This is just plain evil
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 06:50 AM
Aug 2013

The people behind this need to be required to live in the shoes of those this affects.

Their arrogant attitude might get a wake up call. Fine Christians they say they are, prove it.

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