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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump fights to purge food stamps recipients despite pandemic
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health/usda-fights-to-purge-food-stamps-recipients-despite-pandemicWASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department said Wednesday that it would appeal a judge's ruling that it would be "arbitrary and capricious" to move forward during a global health crisis with food stamp changes that could force hundreds of thousands from the program.
Federal Judge Beryl Howell, in a ruling late last week, stopped a set of changes that would have taken effect on April 1. On Wednesday, an Agriculture Department spokesperson responded to an Associated Press query with a terse email saying only that "USDA disagrees with the court's reasoning and will appeal its decision."
Under the current rules, able-bodied adults without dependents must show they've worked at least 80 hours per month for more than three months in a 36-month period to stay in the SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program commonly known as food stamps.
However, individual states have had the ability to waive that work requirement and time limit for areas of the state that have high unemployment rates. The changes, championed by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, would have taken that waiver ability from the states, starting on April 1. Estimates from the Agriculture Department set the number of people who would be removed from the program at approximately 700,000.
Federal Judge Beryl Howell, in a ruling late last week, stopped a set of changes that would have taken effect on April 1. On Wednesday, an Agriculture Department spokesperson responded to an Associated Press query with a terse email saying only that "USDA disagrees with the court's reasoning and will appeal its decision."
Under the current rules, able-bodied adults without dependents must show they've worked at least 80 hours per month for more than three months in a 36-month period to stay in the SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program commonly known as food stamps.
However, individual states have had the ability to waive that work requirement and time limit for areas of the state that have high unemployment rates. The changes, championed by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, would have taken that waiver ability from the states, starting on April 1. Estimates from the Agriculture Department set the number of people who would be removed from the program at approximately 700,000.
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Trump fights to purge food stamps recipients despite pandemic (Original Post)
CousinIT
Apr 2020
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Republicans are doing all they can . . .
to hinder a certain % of Americans. They really do not care about the USA citizens unless you are rich and share their insane ideology.
Vote them out!
CurtEastPoint
(18,646 posts)2. Yep. This defines the Dump Admin: make'em sick...starve'em
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)3. Working on the important things. Like making Americans starve, repealing Obamacare, slashing
Medicare and Medicade.
All the things the pro life party SHOULD be doing, during a pandemic.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. What the ever loving fuck?
This is just evil! How cruel can they be to strike at people when they are already down?
I honestly cannot believe this. It's like we have slipped into a barbaric, totalitarian dictatorship overnight. There is nobody who will reign him in and nobody who has the courage to stop his most egregious actions.