Time Limit on Food Stamps Affects ThousandsA three-month time limit on food stamps for unemployed or underemployed adults age 18 to 50 who...Giammarise, Kate
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously known as the Food Stamps Program, is a non-prescriptive program and is the largest food assistance program in the USA, which served more than 41 million people in 2022 (USDA ERS 2024). The SNAP allows its beneficiaries to have w...
In the September 10, 2024, US Presidential debate, Kamala Harris said this. However, this claim is false. IRS data shows all income brackets benefited with the largest benefits going to working and middle-income filers, not the top 1%. Further, if Harris actually believed this, the Biden-...
Tens of thousands of low-income New Mexicans will have more time to meet work and job-training requirements if they want to remain eligible for food stamps, state officials announced Tuesday. New Mexico Human Services Secretary Brent Earnest told The Associated Press that his department de...
Undersander said he and his wife recently retired and were living off savings while volunteering to help seniors navigate government resources and social programs when he realized he qualified for food stamps. “At the time my wife and I were recently retired, drawing very little...
SNAP already includes work requirements for low-income people ages 18 to 49 who are able-bodied and without dependents. Under the deal, that age limit would be raised to 54 years old, which could hurt older workers without a stable income and potentially put them at risk of losing food a...
Constraints of lower status jobs such as working multiple jobs, long hours, shift scheduling, and overtime pose barriers for low-income adults to prepare meals at home [65]. Lack of cooking knowledge, confidence, and skills can also limit at-home preparation of healthy meals [66, 67] and ...
“Things are not getting any easier here for low- and moderate-income households, and we don’t expect it to for a while,” Altfest said. Among those newcomers to the food bank system is Ranada James. The 47-year-old child care professional had received Supplemental Nutr...
Federally funded community health centers serve 1 in 11 Americans. Most of them are low-income and many are underinsured.
However, individual states have had the ability to waive that work requirement and time limit for areas of the state that have high unemployment rates. The changes, championed by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, would have taken that waiver ability from the states, starting on April 1. Estima...