As food stamp recipients adjust to recent cuts in their benefits, they face losing even more.
A bill before Congress, known as the farm bill, threatens to cut as much as $39 billion more from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, over the next 10 years. On Friday, recipients lost about 5 percent of their benefits when temporary funding for food stamps from the 2009 stimulus expired.
“It’s like a perfect storm,” Montgomery County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin said of the potentially double cuts.
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Good and keep cutting them and get a dam job
ReplyDeleteYou can cut them just as easy by limiting what can be purchased!
ReplyDeleteThen look at who gets the benefit....if you have an iPhone or 22 inch rims - you're off the program....you either don't need the money - or are good enough at budgeting!