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Eight years of recovery and just barely seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Glad we listened to Obamas plan.
What requirements were raised and lowered?
“Able-bodied adults without dependents are eligible for SNAP for only three months in any three-year period unless they are working or participating in qualifying education and training activities,” said Kevin W. Concannon, the under secretary of agriculture in charge of food assistance programs.
During and after the latest recession, which ended in mid-2009, most states qualified for waivers from the time limits. But the time limits will be in effect this year in more than 40 states. In 22 states, the limits are coming back for the first time since the recession.
As the economy improves, the Food and Nutrition Service said, many places no longer qualify for time limit waivers.
In 2016, Ms. Rosenbaum said, the three-month time limit will be in effect in areas with about 65 percent of the United States population while the rest of the country can qualify for waivers because of high and persistent unemployment, and officials in those states have requested a continuation of the waivers.
By contrast, Ms. Rosenbaum said, the 2015 time limits were in effect in areas with about 30 percent of the country’s population.
Yep, like I said, the old requirements are being slowly put back in place. California is holding onto its waiver until 2018. Despite this, California food stamp enrollment actually dropped by more than 200,000 between May and June.
Population increase alone will probably keep SNAP participation from ever dropping back down to 2007 levels.
LOL The nagging income stagnation has been an issue since 2008, and now that it improves, you come up with this?
A natural born pessimist will never be happy, but most people are happy seeing this improve.
And Obama counts on the uninformed, who aren't aware of how the Census Bureau since 2013, in it's "rolling census," the ACS, determines household income. And it's Obama's MO, just as he changed the definition of deportations, to make it appear that they increased under his administration.
That's what happens in a banana republic--the facts are what the junta says they are.
Yep, like I said, the old requirements are being slowly put back in place. California is holding onto its waiver until 2018. Despite this, California food stamp enrollment actually dropped by more than 200,000 between May and June.
Population increase alone will probably keep SNAP participation from ever dropping back down to 2007 levels.
I was curious about how the standard requirements were first lowered and why.
As an example If you made less than 30k and had 3 children why was it lowered to making less than 25k and having 3 children. Why lower the requirements? What changed?
Wouldn't income being stagnant while prices increased cause the enrollment to rise just by itself? example - 30k buys 30k worth of product in 2014 but 29.6k worth of product in 2016. The money is purchasing less so more people would need food stamps.
So the 30k level is used in 2014 and in 2016 the new level is 30.4k
Am just using the 30k figure. I don't know the levels and number of dependents on when food stamps kick in and I'm sure it varies from state to state.
If the number of people on food stamps has increased that much and stayed at roughly the same high level, wouldn't the obvious answer be most of the jobs we've gotten back are lower paying jobs?
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The nagging income stagnation has been an issue since 2008, and now that it improves, you come up with this? 
