The Trump administration is proposing a rule change that would cut up to 3.1 million people from the food stamp program, saving taxpayers $2.5 billion annually.
The revised regulation would require people who currently receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, to undergo a separate income review to determine if they are eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Currently, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials say, there are 43 states that automatically allow their residents to receive SNAP assistance if they are receiving TANF benefits.
“Some states are taking advantage of loopholes that allow people to receive the SNAP benefits who would otherwise not qualify and for which they are not entitled,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue revealed in a conference call.
President Trump has argued that many Americans now using SNAP do not need it given the strong economy and low unemployment, and should be removed as a way to save taxpayers as much as $15 billion. https://t.co/LDoIFhokMg
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“This proposal will save money and preserve the integrity of the program,” Perdue argued, adding that “SNAP should be a temporary safety net.”
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Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said the rule change is an attempt by the administration to “circumvent Congress and make harmful changes to nutrition assistance that have been repeatedly rejected on a bipartisan basis.”
It’s the Economy Stupid
The Trump administration has argued that a booming economy has helped lower the unemployment rate to full employment, making food stamp assistance less necessary.
When Barack Obama entered office in 2009, about 33 million Americans were enrolled in SNAP. By 2013, that number had shot up to 48 million.
Two million Americans dropped from the food stamp program during Trump’s first year as President, which at that time was the lowest point in six years.
Marc Little: “The dramatic reduction of 2.2 million food stamp recipients in the first 18 months of a Donald Trump presidency is a step in the right direction…It’s a win for the president, it’s a win for the nation.” @foxandfriends https://t.co/dYCJHeM5yQ pic.twitter.com/WKJSRtOSev
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The President announced earlier this month that “Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low,” a comment verified by left-leaning fact-checking website, Politifact.
During his State of the Union address, President Trump bragged about the roaring economy and it’s role in changing how more people are working instead of relying on food stamps.
“Wages are rising at the fastest pace if decades and growing for blue-collar workers who I promised to fight for, they’re growing faster than anyone else thought possible,” he said to uproarious applause. “Nearly five million Americans have been lifted off food stamps.”
Work is the single most important way to escape poverty. Your President is proving that.
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Third generation welfare recipients, “professional leeches,” should be required to
be drug tested, undergo DNA testing for their brood, cross reference the DNA results
with those with criminal records.
I have NO problem with people / families needing assistance.
Welfare / SNAP is a hand up, NOT a damned career !
MANY corner markets redeem SNAP / Welfare chits for 50 % of value, and allow
alcohol, cigarettes, ‘forbidden item purchases or cash.
MANY of these $$$$ wind up back in Arabic countries, assisting Isis.
Free food for illegal aliens while seniors on social security barely get by.
These people pump out a kid a year, and then demand the government support them. obummer got 48 million people on welfare. Why should America work so these low life’s don’t have to. This guy in the check out land has $600.00 worth of food, pays with food stamps and then pushes the cart out to his new Cadillac. That IS NOT the way it should be!
The simple truth is that honest oversight of these programs would cost democrat way too many votes and they know that they would loose their cushy legislative ride .
This may sound cruel to some people but it works. When I was a young girl the government would pay for unwed mothers or mothers on welfare first 3 babies and then they would sterilize them, like I said it may sound cruel, but, it sure cut down on people using the welfare system to make money.
I am 58 yrs.old. I am a Veteran. I have been deemed Handicapped by the V.A. & cannot work although I really wish that I could. I am NO slouch & I am sorry I cannot contribute to this great & current booming economy that this current Administration has uplifted, but I do not agree with cutting ALL of us Legal American Citizens who have disabilities or have been deemed Handicapped & unable to work.
I do say what a GREAT Country we live in with services like S.S.I. & Snap benifits & Sec.8 or HUB & the many, many OTHER services & programs for Legal U.S. American Citizens to obtain due to their Disabilities( Mental, Health,Old age ect. , ect.).
Those Citizens who are NOT having any of the above mentioned issues should be taken off from those Benifits.
They should work & contribute to this Country.
Of course there are area’s in this country that still have a depressed economy( lack of job oppertunittys or lack of Job training or Education due to a $HIIGH$ cost of College tuitions)
Do we say to them,” Hey, just work McDonalds or 2 or 3 low paying jobs like that or ANYTHING to be a contributor to the work force?!?!”
Who knows what the right answers are?, but those abel bodied & capable citizens should do SOMETHING instead of simply taking a $FREE$ ride on the Taxpayers backs!!!
Do you agree?
What are your views on this matter?
I believe those Legal U.S. Citizens who have been ligitimatly deemed NOT able to work need to have & continue to have those benifits availible to them!!!
God bless Trump!
More changes need to be made. Recipients shouldn’t get even more for every child they have especially when they’re on number 7…… the US taxpayer isn’t responsible to feed and house you or your children.
WHAT’S WRONG…IS HE RUNNING OUT OF BOMBS?
they should be evaluating these people and their income all the time… I had a time many years ago where I had to fall back on the help of food stamps and every 3 months I had to take in information about my income and what bills I had to pay out.. certain things were not allowed….and there were certain things you could not buy with the food stamps.. I worked hard to get off the food stamps… I didn’t not want to be on them any longer than needed…
They should be verifying their employment, how much they make and what they pay out in bills… and verify how many are in the family … I had to do it every 3 months…
WAY too many commit fraud with the food stamps and the welfare… it needs to be cleaned up
Reform WELLFARE… FIRE Congress. Biggest bunch of FREE LOADERS in America.
There is need for total reform of t he entire welfare system. SNAP is only one of part of the problem How about the welfare cheats.
48 million? Sounds like the Democrat Voter Base Population. I live on my VA service connected disability and I don’t even get food stamps.
Having had the dubious pleasure to work in welfare, I would recommend cutting off her food stamps and then doing a DNA test on the kids, make her tell who the fathers were, verifying the paternity and then cutting off his testicles and freezing them until the youngest turns 21!
My friend used to work at a food stamp office…she’d make surprise home visits and the woman would have some drone living there not paying for anything. THEN she would lose her food stamps.
I say we DNA all illegitimate kids & make the biological fathers pay support. If the mother won’t say who it is then cut her off & adopt out the kids. Only in cases of rape but a rape kit would be a requirement to be eligable for welfare so the man can be identified.
It is incumbent on all those receiving assistance to demonstrate that they do require that assistance! Otherwise the system is open to fraud and corruption. President Trump is more than right to do this. There must be accountability in ALL federal spending! Remember that President Trump is the people’s representative for ALL people, including those who oppose him.
Agree… Another place we could save BILLIONS every year is to stop catering to the illegal aliens with all the free handouts to them…. tax payers should NOT be burdened with taking care of illegal aliens who have NO right to be in the country.. They also are taking advantage of the tax payers…
And why do you think they don.t attack us? Because we have a strong defense. Are you really that stupid? Yeah, I guess you are.
Defense? against who? what country as attacked us?
No one in your family ever served ?
You’d be speaking German, or perhaps in the NEAR future,
Farsi.
Would YOU fight for the existence of YOUR family ?
Can you actually understand why wars are necessary ?
You do realize, that history is written by the winners of these
“illegal” / immoral wars ?
The point is it’s wasted on illegal wars.
And your point?
think of all the billions spent annually on defence….that’s taxpayers’ money too.
This has been stated as if he would be taken from the needy. But it is not True. by setting a standard and making it take place would stop the free loaders from Ripping off the Tax payers
Also the ID of the person they are issued to should also be checked. As I know that people sell them
Remember the article of the man who worked for the city government who was in Walmart. The Muslim lady in front of him at the check stand he reconized as the daughter or some relative who owned a Mom & Pop corner store in his neighborhood . She was buying all kinds of bulk items Soda, Water etc. She paid with food stamps
When he got out to the parking lot he saw her & a young man loading the merchandise into her vehicle. He said to her I know you are purchasing those things for your parents store to sell with food stamps. She said mind your own business they are my food stamps
I remember reading it & wonder why he did not turn her in
I totally agree, & have thought so for years. Ever noticed what’s in their baskets? Not only are their baskets overflowing, but the bulk of it is junk food. Pre-cooked, fried, glazed in sugery-salty sauce & calorie-dense food, & all they have to do is pop it in the microwave. These kinds of foods should not be allowed, nor should pastries, cookies, or candy. These folks are not working. They have plenty of time to cook their own meals & bake their own goodies. The only things that should be allowed for purchase with food stamps are the basics: milk, cottage cheese, cheese, flour, sugar, margarine, shortening, baking ingredients, cereal, bread, fresh fruit & vegetables, fresh hamburger meat & other inexpensive cuts of meat, potatoes, rice, beans, & pasta. They’d be much healthier, slimmer, & better able to find work if they ate right. And they’d be sitting in front of the TV a lot less if they were preparing & cooking their own meals— they might even learn a skill that could pay off in other ways as well. Also, those on food stamps should be getting food stamps— not the convenience of an EBT card, which they haven’t earned the right to have. Maybe using food stamps might make it a bit uncomfortable to use— another incentive to get a job & get off welfare & food stamps. And one more thing: we shouldn’t have to wait in line behind them; most of our baskets are rarely 1/2 full because we’re broke after paying all their expenses.
There are a lot of people out here, especially elderly, who worked all their lives & now have nothing to get by on but their social security checks. It’s not enough to eat very well. Often choose between meds & food. Then we have these freeloaders, legal & not, who live grocery large on our tax money. Gov. doesn’t even require that they prove need of it every month! It’s just automatically reloaded each month without question! I’m beyond angry every time I see it happening at the store. So often it’s a man, pregnant woman, & a tribe of kids, all together, in the middle of the day. Cart full of good stuff & nobody at work earning a dime. DA%%
What really gets me is to see a cart full of junk food and ready made food in the carts of people that are on welfare.
There definitely are people who lie to get them….& if you are honest you don’t get much…but it’s the states who need cracking down on certifying them properly
True. I work at a large grocery chain. Many of these people treat the employees badly. One of the employees spoke up to one of them once and asked the person just who was paying for the groceries.
While he is at it , they need to change the rules. Why is it when I pay for my groceries the person in front of me paying with an EBT card eats better than I do?
One woman where my sister used to work came in and paid for a wedding cake with an EBT card. Really? Drastic changes need to be made as to what is allowed to be purchased.