In Indiana you now gotta work to get your food stamps.

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

GOOD!

Indiana will next year cut off food stamp benefits to tens of thousands of residents who have not secured jobs or participated in work training programs.

Gov. Mike Pence (R), starting in the spring, will reinstate work eligibility requirements to the state food stamp program—a move seen by many observers as draconian while the economic recovery has largely not benefited low-wage workers.

Federal rules limit the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamp, benefits a person can receive if they don’t prove that they are actively seeking work, but states can have that requirement waived during periods of economic stress.

Indiana, along with most other states, had applied for and received waivers to bypass that rule during the Great Recession of 2008. Monthly food stamp participation rose between 2009 and 2013, reaching 926,011 Indianans, or 14 percent of the population, at its height.

An Indiana resident, to qualify for food stamps, has to make $15,170 annually at most, or 130 percent of the federal poverty level.

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http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/10/21/indiana-cut-food-stamps-65000-residents/

 

[+paradox]

that's a good thing, if you want help then put in volunteer work each week...

 

[Dee]

I don't really see anything wrong with this. Unless they are physically unable to work and can prove so with medical documents, if you are able to work some kind of job, you really should be looking for one even whilst on government assistance.

 

[Webster]

that's a good thing, if you want help then put in volunteer work each week...

I don't really see anything wrong with this. Unless they are physically unable to work and can prove so with medical documents, if you are able to work some kind of job, you really should be looking for one even whilst on government assistance.

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...what they said.

 

[+paradox]

I don't really see anything wrong with this.  Unless they are physically unable to work and can prove so with medical documents, if you are able to work some kind of job, you really should be looking for one even whilst on government assistance.

for those that aren't able to work are eligible for disability...