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Related: About this forumWisconsin FoodShare work requirement approved
May 22, 2013 By Andrew Beckett
Many FoodShare recipients will have to work at least 20 hours a week or enroll in job training, if they want to keep receiving benefits. The budget provision approved by the Legislatures Joint Finance Committee Tuesday would cut off food stamp benefits for able-bodied childless adults, unless they meet work requirements.
State Representative Cory Mason (D-Racine) called the proposal a mean-spirited attack on the poor that literally tells 30,000 Wisconsin residents, who are poor, were going to take away your benefits for food.
Mason criticized Republicans for making the change on the same day that Governor Walker attended a high-priced fundraiser in New York. Democrats also pointed out that the stricter work requirements will end up costing the state money. About 63,000 residents currently fall under the category of able-bodied childless adults and state officials estimate over 31,000 people would no longer qualify for benefits, which would result in Wisconsin losing about $72 million in federal aid. The state would also spend about $36 million over the next two years to monitor recipients and create job training programs.
Joint Finance Committee co-chair John Nygren (R-Marinette) defended those extra costs though, saying individuals receiving the hand-up offered by FoodShare should also be doing whatever they can to find work. Other Republicans on the panel pointed out that the change only impacts those who should be able to work and actually brings the state in line with federal work requirements for food assistance programs.
http://www.wrn.com/2013/05/wisconsin-foodshare-work-requirement-approved/
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Wisconsin FoodShare work requirement approved (Original Post)
midnight
May 2013
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dembotoz
(16,785 posts)1. assholes
I know we are supposed to be civil to the opposition
but god damn it I do really HATE them
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)2. I can't find a job therefore I need help to feed myself
We won't help you feed youself if you don't have a job? If they went after corporate tax cheats with the same zeal, vim, and vigor they exert against the poor we might really get somewhere.
midnight
(26,624 posts)3. I know, it makes no sense....
keroro gunsou
(2,223 posts)4. i have foodshare
and i work... and because i work, my foodshare is 16 bucks a month.....