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Sampson Independent
April 4, 2018
An idea from the Trump administration to replace a food stamp method of receiving meal assistance started controversy around the United States. The plan labeled “America's Harvest Box” calls for recipients to receive a pre-assembled box of food instead of a traditional cash-on-a-card method through theÃÂ ...
ideastream
April 4, 2018
That's because most of the spending goes not to farmers but to the food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Fudge is afraid adults who cannot find work in economically struggling areas will be kicked out off the rolls. “Not that they don't wish to work, I don'tÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
April 4, 2018
Enter Double Up Food Bucks, a program that doubles Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, commonly known as food stamps) benefits for recipients shopping at participating farmers markets or ... "If we are going to be spending food stamp dollars, this is where we need to be spending them.
KTTS
April 4, 2018
The Missouri House has passed legislation to require parents receiving food stamps to comply with work requirements or face losing benefits. Lawmakers voted 107-43 Tuesday to send the bill to the Senate. The measure is aimed at requiring able-bodied parents aided by the Supplemental NutritionÃÂ ...
WJXT News4JAX
April 4, 2018
As a result, investigators concluded that she was not legally eligible to receive $7,015 in food stamp benefits she collected from October 2015 through December 2016. Clark was arrested March 10 and booked into the Sumter County jail on a third-degree felony charge of welfare fraud, jail records show.
cleveland.com
April 3, 2018
Larissa Rodriguez and Nancy Caraballo entered the plea Monday, admitting to charges that accused them of running a bribery scheme that saw Caraballo withhold reports of child neglect or abuse in exchange for some of Rodriguez's food stamps. Rodriguez pleaded guilty to trafficking in food stamps,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
Second jobs have become a necessity for many teachers in Oklahoma, which ranks near the bottom annually in educator salaries. April 3, 2018, at 1:07 a.m.. April 3, 2018, at 1:07 a.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Oklahoma Teacher: 'I'd Be on Food Stamps' Without Second Job. More. This combination ofÃÂ ...
MyAJC
April 3, 2018
Georgia's lawmakers on Capitol Hill are staking out opposing positions in the mushrooming battle over food stamps, contributing to a partisan impasse that threatens to stall one of the last major pieces of legislation Congress must pass this year. At the heart of the disagreement is a proposal that wouldÃÂ ...
STLtoday.com
April 2, 2018
Republican members of the Missouri Legislature are intent on making sure that able-bodied adults without dependents have to work for their food stamps instead of slacking off. But the effort could be in trouble. It's not really a very big problem, and lawmakers have doled out so many tax breaks there isn'tÃÂ ...
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
March 10, 2018
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The West Virginia Senate has voted 27-6 to impose the federal 20-hour weekly work requirement for many food stamp recipients statewide. It would apply to people ages 18 to 49 who aren't pregnant, disabled or military veterans, have no dependent children and getÃÂ ...
West Virginia MetroNews
March 10, 2018
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Houses of West Virginia's Legislature worked out a disagreement over a bill dealing with food stamp eligibility. The bill has been controversial all session long. On Saturday morning, the House of Delegates refused to concur, 62-36, with changes to the bill that were made in theÃÂ ...
WSAZ-TV
March 10, 2018
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The West Virginia Senate has voted 27-6 to impose the federal 20-hour weekly work requirement for many food stamp recipients statewide. It would apply to people ages 18 to 49 who aren't pregnant, disabled or military veterans, have no dependent children and getÃÂ ...
ABC News
March 10, 2018
Food stamp administrators across the country are expressing reservations about "America's Harvest Box," pitched by Agriculture Department officials as a way to cut costs and improve efficiency. The government is proposing to replace the debit card-type program with a pre-assembled box of shelf-stableÃÂ ...
The Hill
March 9, 2018
The Trump administration has put out a call for ideas on how to get people on food stamps back to work, but anti-hunger advocates fear it's a first step toward a new rule that would kick thousands of unemployed people out of the program. Federal law prohibits unemployed adults aged 18 to 49 who are notÃÂ ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 3, 2018
The number of Tennesseans receiving food stamps dropped under 1 million for the first time in a decade at the start of 2018 as the state's improving economy helped lift more Tennesseans out of poverty, according to new state figures. About one of every seven Tennesseans was enrolled in the federallyÃÂ ...
The CT Mirror
March 3, 2018
Washington – Single, unemployed adults without children who receive food stamps in Connecticut may soon see those benefits end under new regulations being considered by the Trump administration. Trump has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to consider work requirements for recipients of theÃÂ ...
Auburn Citizen (blog)
March 2, 2018
Schumer: Trump administration's proposed food stamp cuts 'deplorable' ... proposed 2019 budget that would cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps, by more than ... Counties in central New York would face steep reductions in food stamp aid.
Berkshire Eagle
March 2, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration recently proposed massive, across-the-board cuts to food stamps. ... per-meal benefit allowed by the food stamp program to the average cost of meals purchased by low-income households in the U.S. It found that, in 99 percent of counties, those meals regularlyÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
February 23, 2018
The Trump administration has taken its first step toward imposing stricter work requirements on food stamp recipients. The USDA began soliciting public input to "promote work and self-sufficiency" in the federal food stamp program on Friday, kicking off the process required to implement changes to the rulesÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
February 22, 2018
Got ideas for getting getting able-bodied people back to work and off of food stamps? The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to know. The agency is soliciting ideas from the public that promote "work and self-sufficiency among able-bodied adults participating in the Supplemental Nutrition AssistanceÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
February 22, 2018
The Agriculture Department said in December that it would work with states to "promote self-sufficiency" and give them greater local control over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps. The food stamp program already requires childless adults to work.
CNNMoney
February 13, 2018
Republicans have long wanted to downsize food stamps, known formally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. They argue that the program is ... As of fiscal 2016, 44% of food stamp recipients are children, and 12% were senior citizens older than age 60. The rest were working-ageÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 25, 2018
WASHINGTON – A White House plan to replace federal food stamps with groceries delivered by mail isn't likely to become reality anytime soon, but the idea signals a looming budget battle over free nutrition programs. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides 44 millionÃÂ ...
The Register-Guard
February 25, 2018
... about half of the individual food stamp allocation would be cut in favor of the delivered food. ... If only there were a more efficient way to take advantage of current food distribution systems, and allow people to select and carry their own food home? Oh, right. It's called food stamps. This food box idea takesÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
February 23, 2018
The Trump administration has taken its first step toward imposing stricter work requirements on food stamp recipients. The USDA began soliciting public input to "promote work and self-sufficiency" in the federal food stamp program on Friday, kicking off the process required to implement changes to the rulesÃÂ ...
MyAJC
February 23, 2018
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has proposed replacing a share of food stamp payments with boxes of ... Congress would need to approve any funding changes to food stamps -- a steep climb politically -- but at least some House Republicans have been clear theyÃÂ ...
The Denver Post
February 23, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is taking a step toward tightening work requirements in the food-stamp program, with a focus on ... The agency is not advancing any changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – better known as “food stamps” – at this time, Lipps said. But it isÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
February 23, 2018
The Agriculture Department said in December that it would work with states to "promote self-sufficiency" and give them greater local control over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps. The food stamp program already requires childless adults to work.
Detroit Free Press
February 22, 2018
Got ideas for getting getting able-bodied people back to work and off of food stamps? The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to know. The agency is soliciting ideas from the public that promote "work and self-sufficiency among able-bodied adults participating in the Supplemental Nutrition AssistanceÃÂ ...
Williamson Daily News
February 22, 2018
CHARLESTON - The West Virginia House voted Tuesday to impose the federal 20-hour weekly work requirement for many food stamp recipients statewide. It would apply to people ages 18 to 49 who aren't pregnant, disabled or military veterans, have no dependent children and get Supplemental NutritionÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
February 13, 2018
Republicans have long wanted to downsize food stamps, known formally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. They argue that the program is ... As of fiscal 2016, 44% of food stamp recipients are children, and 12% were senior citizens older than age 60. The rest were working-ageÃÂ ...
MyAJC (blog)
February 13, 2018
If the Trump administration gets its way, former Georgia governor and current Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue could oversee the transformation of the nation's food stamp program -- away from redeemable coupons to a system in which boxes of American-grown food are shipped directly to poor families.
NEWS10 ABC
February 13, 2018
Trump also is proposing work requirements for several federal programs, including housing subsidies, food stamps, and Medicaid. Such ideas have the backing from powerful figures in Congress, including Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who promises action on a “workforceÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
February 13, 2018
The number of people on food stamps plummeted nationwide in November, according to Breitbart, a conservative news website. "Food stamp enrollment drops by four million in one month," stated the Feb. 7 headline. Facebook users flagged the post as being potentially fabricated, as part of the socialÃÂ ...
WFLA
February 13, 2018
WASHINGTON (WFLA) — President Donald Trump's administration is proposing major changes and major cuts to the federal food stamp program. In his 2019 budget unveiled on Monday, Trump proposed a “bold new approach” to the Supplemental Nutritional Assitance Program (SNAP) that would involveÃÂ ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
February 12, 2018
A second suspect has been charged in connection with a fraud scheme involving the purchase of food stamp cards in exchange for cash and heroin, according to court records. Joseph George Faddoul, 32, of Clinton, was arrested Saturday when authorities found him intoxicated at a North KnoxvilleÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 11, 2018
Just in the city of Seattle, 83,560 people use food stamps, which totals $98.8 million in annual expenditures, according to 2016 data from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. Since some of these SNAP recipients could theoretically be shopping at the Amazon Go store, Lynn considers that aÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
February 10, 2018
The Oregonian/OregonLive this week asked the Department of Human Services for statistics on food stamp fraud by store owners. A spokeswoman for the department said analysts would need more time to gather such data. Prosecutions in the metro area are relatively rare. Robert Crow, Iskander's defenseÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
February 8, 2018
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A 62-year-old upstate New York fish store owner has been sentenced to one year in prison for his role in a food stamp fraud ... to accept and redeem food stamps at his market in Rochester, but over a five-year period he illegally used cash to purchase food stamp benefits for lessÃÂ ...
The Spoon (blog)
February 8, 2018
The new Amazon Go here in Seattle generated a lot of buzz when it opened last month. And while the store is a miracle of technology, it's yet another venue where people on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, can't shop. It's modern roadblocks like this thatÃÂ ...
The Herald
February 8, 2018
The scheme cheated the federal government out of as much as $90,000 a month for years, prosecutors said. But the sentences, handed down in federal court in Columbia, were shortened because all three helped prosecute “poor people” who misused food stamps to buy gas, cigarettes and beer at a storeÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 8, 2018
Feldman was authorized to accept and redeem food stamps at his business. More: Fishmonger admits $1.4M food-stamp fraud. Between January 2016 and October 2015, Feldman illegally used cash to buy food stamps for less than half their full value from eligible beneficiaries, according to a release fromÃÂ ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
February 7, 2018
A Knox County man has been charged in connection with a fraud scheme in which authorities say he accepted payments through food stamp cards in exchange for cash and heroin. James Allan Hampton Jr., 52, was taken into custody Tuesday on 21 felony warrants, including charges of theft, food stampÃÂ ...
fox13now.com
February 6, 2018
FLINT, Mich. – An online petition asking for government food benefits to be extended to pets is creating quite a bit of buzz. It asks the federal government to allow people receiving food stamps, now called SNAP benefits, to be able to buy food for the pets. “You know, they were part of the family before hardÃÂ ...
Fortune
January 30, 2018
As of October 2017, 45.6 million Americans received food stamps—a 5.1% increase from October 2016. SNAP benefits, though, can not be used to purchase pet food, alcohol, or any non-food products. The petition was started by someone who says they have been receiving food stamps for “a few months”à...
CBS Baltimore / WJZ
January 25, 2018
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A legislative committee in West Virginia has narrowly voted to advance legislation that would establish a 20-hour weekly work requirement for many food stamp recipients. The bill, approved 12-10 by the House Health and Human Resources Committee on Tuesday, wouldÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Gazette (blog)
January 25, 2018
A heart-tugging issue has surfaced as lawmakers prepare to dig into details of the Farm Bill, a catchall package of items relating to agriculture and food policy in the United States. Should recipients of food stamps be allowed to purchase food for their hungry pets with the finite federal support they receiveÃÂ ...
CNBC
January 25, 2018
Jeff Bezos recently made headlines for becoming the world's richest man. And after the launch of Amazon Go this week, Bezos tacked on another $2.8 billion to his net worth. But there's another story that's not getting as much attention. Ten percent of Amazon's Ohio workforce is on food stamps, accordingÃÂ ...
Riverfront Times (blog)
January 25, 2018
Image via Missouri State Senate; David Sater (R-Cassville) has a new bill to crack down on food stamp recipients. A state senator from southern Missouri wants to crack down on people receiving food stamps — and their kids. The bill sponsored by Senator David Sater (R-Cassville) would punish peopleÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
January 25, 2018
“It's evident that there are able-bodied adults without dependents who are on the food stamp program, who we believe it is in their best interests, and their families' best interests, to move into an independent lifestyle,” Perdue told reporters Wednesday at an event on a farm outside Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.
