Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s new debt limit negotiating proposal will include broad moves to restrict food assistance for millions of low-income Americans

[Moonglow]

An examination of the demographics of welfare recipients reveals that those under the age of 18 account for 41% of all welfare users. Meanwhile, people aged between 18 and 64 account for 50% of the recipients. Seniors (65 and older) account for just 12% of the population on welfare.Dec 9, 2021

Straight Talk on Welfare Statistics (20+ Stats & Facts) | Fortunly​

 

[Moonglow]

... the Obama administration has since watered down the law’s successes by allowing states to opt out of work requirements for welfare recipients.​

20 Years after Welfare Reform, Conservatives Should Build on Its Success to Address Poverty | National Review

We can and must do more to expand economic opportunities for America’s poor.

www.nationalreview.com

Trump Signs Executive Order to Require Recipients of Federal Aid Programs to Work

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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing that low-income recipients of food assistance, Medicaid, and low-income housing subsidies need to be in the workforce to remain eligible for benefits.

 

[excalibur]

About 44% of SNAP participants are children, and 21% are adults living with those minors. Among those children receiving SNAP in the US, 31% are preschool children under five, and 42% are kids aged 5–11. An additional 27% belong to the 12–17 age group per the official demographics of welfare recipients.

24+ Welfare Statistics - 2023 Update | Balancing Everything​

You referenced 'elderly in an earlier post.

And the kids since the largest recipients are children and the elderly.

 

[excalibur]

Trump Signs Executive Order to Require Recipients of Federal Aid Programs to Work

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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing that low-income recipients of food assistance, Medicaid, and low-income housing subsidies need to be in the workforce to remain eligible for benefits.

Not the same as actual legislation.

 

[Hossfly]

About 44% of SNAP participants are children, and 21% are adults living with those minors. Among those children receiving SNAP in the US, 31% are preschool children under five, and 42% are kids aged 5–11. An additional 27% belong to the 12–17 age group per the official demographics of welfare recipients.

24+ Welfare Statistics - 2023 Update | Balancing Everything​

How come the children's parents or guardians are allowed to spend the SNAP on Porterhouse steaks, scratch off tickets and Colt 45? I see it every damn day.

 

[struth]

The states have already put on a requirement to work it came with the welfare reform act of 1995.

PRWORA granted states greater latitude in administering social welfare programs, and implemented new requirements on welfare recipients, including a five-year lifetime limit on benefits. After the passage of the law, the number of individuals receiving federal welfare dramatically declined.

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act - Wikipedia​

cool they want to expand it as there are loopholes

read the link in the OP

 

[struth]

Yeah, I noticed how you used it to support your statement.

actually i made my statement based on it

try reading it

 

[Anathema]

WE WILL CRASH THE ECONOMY UNLESS YOU AGREE TO CUT NUTRITION ASSISTANCE FOR POOR CHILDREN does not feel like a winning strategy to me. Americans just aren't that mean. They want to help poor, hungry children

Maybe it’s time for these people to stop expecting the Government to support their kids and start supporting the kids themselves.

 

[rightwinger]

How come the children's parents or guardians are allowed to spend the SNAP on Porterhouse steaks, scratch off tickets and Colt 45? I see it every damn day.

I know….I see then eating caviar and lobster tails while they laugh at people who have to work

 

[Lisa558]

Trump Signs Executive Order to Require Recipients of Federal Aid Programs to Work

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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing that low-income recipients of food assistance, Medicaid, and low-income housing subsidies need to be in the workforce to remain eligible for benefits.

What’s so horrible about requiring people living off OPM do some work to keep the money flow going? Why do you leftists insist that able-bodied adults should be free to choose to work or not when they have children - and force OTHER people to support them?

 

[bodecea]

America has 7 million able-bodied men who have been out of the work force since the Covid scam started and are living of the taxpayers, refusing to go back to work. Thanks, President Biden.

Where is your link to evidence?

 

[bodecea]

What’s so horrible about requiring people living off OPM do some work to keep the money flow going? Why do you leftists insist that able-bodied adults should be free to choose to work or not when they have children - and force OTHER people to support them?

Where are these abled body non-workers?

 

[bodecea]

How come the children's parents or guardians are allowed to spend the SNAP on Porterhouse steaks, scratch off tickets and Colt 45? I see it every damn day.

Who is doing that? Name names

 

[whitehall]

He never said that. Politico said it.

 

[Lisa558]

He never said that. Politico said it.

What Political is hoping is that the useful idiots will latch onto “restricting food stamps” and not look into it further. All MCCarthy is saying is that parents have to work if they want other people to keep paying to feed his children.

 

[Dragonlady]

How does doubling food & gas prices help poor children?

How is showing ID a restriction?

 

[Dragonlady]

What Political is hoping is that the useful idiots will lash onto “restricting food stamps” and not look into it further. All MCCarthy is saying is that parents have to work if they want other people to keep paying to feed his children.

Are you really this ill informed? These people are already working full time. Most adult able bodied food recipients are working at least one full time job.

Most Working-Age SNAP Participants Work, But Often in Unstable Jobs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

While two-thirds of participants are children, elderly, and people with disabilities, SNAP also helps workers, both to supplement low wages and support them when they are between jobs.

www.cbpp.org

If you just accept the lies they tell you, you'll always be an idiot.

 

[struth]

Are you really this ill informed? These people are already working full time. Most adult able bodied food recipients are working at least one full time job.

Most Working-Age SNAP Participants Work, But Often in Unstable Jobs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

While two-thirds of participants are children, elderly, and people with disabilities, SNAP also helps workers, both to supplement low wages and support them when they are between jobs.

www.cbpp.org

If you just accept the lies they tell you, you'll always be an idiot.

good, then it shouldn’t be an issue…oh wait…you then said “most”

 

[Synthaholic]

There is no negotiation. President Joseph Biden (God's choice) has already said that he's not negotiating because it's not his responsibility to raise the debt ceiling, it's the House's responsibility, and he's correct. McCarthy will either raise it with votes from the House, or he will be responsible for the consequences. That's pretty much it. And if he fucks this up, God help him. The reverberations will affect all Americans for the worse, and Democratic ads will focus on this wholly Republican failure.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

How come the children's parents or guardians are allowed to spend the SNAP on Porterhouse steaks, scratch off tickets and Colt 45? I see it every damn day.

No you don't! You cannot buy scratch off tickets or COLT 45s. Why do you lie about things like this? Is it your deep-seated racism showing its ugly face?

Households CANNOT use SNAP benefits to buy:

• Beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes, or tobacco
• Any nonfood items such as:
  • Pet foods
  • Cleaning supplies, paper products, and other household supplies.
  • Hygiene items, cosmetic

What Can SNAP Buy? | Food and Nutrition Service

www.fns.usda.gov