How will the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21) impact snap benefits? It will reduce them. The National Association of Counties has analyzed the changes. Here is a summary:
1) Previously, the federal government fully funded SNAP. But states overpay out an average of about 10%. Now states with a payment error rate over 6% will be required to pay between 5-15% of the benefits. States that keep their payment error rate under 6% will be fully funded.
Pennsylvania currently receives $4,268 millions in federal food aid. Its payment error rate is currently 12%. It has until FY 2028 to lower that rate but could get that extended until FY 2030.
2) Administrative costs are being shifted. Feds currently pay half of the costs of administering SNAP, but that will drop to 25% in FY 2027.
3) Able bodied adults without dependents between the ages of 18 and 64 will have to work 20 hours a week. If they don't, they can still get SNAP for three months. Although this change is controversial, the previous law also imposed a work requirement on those between 18 and 54.
Since this change to SNAP is conveniently delayed until after next year's midterms, no one is going to be feeling any pain until then.
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Any effort to REDUCE the distribution of SNAP benefits is a welcome change. That’s one ‘free stuff’ program that is rank with abusers.
Let’s not forget the peculiar ending on non-taxing of tips and other tax breaks. Those will expire just as Trump leaves office. Which then puts the onus on the next President and his house/senate to either leave the tax breaks to sunset or add even more debt to extent them.
And some of these more painful issues such as Medicaid and insurance cuts don’t take affect until the midterms or next Presidential election.
Also with the non-taxing of tips there are caps and only specific tip earning jobs are eligible. Believe many think if they earn tips they are eligible and that’s not true. Also not all overtime worked is eligible for non-taxing, again covers only specific jobs and has limitations. Hopefully everyone read the really small, fine print of this bill. Will not help as many as they like us to believe!
Trump is doing what is right and the democrats are crying.
There is a segment of the population who lives by the "the more kids I have, the bigger my check (SNAP, SSI, WIC, et al) will be" philosophy and this segment has a subset group who lives by the "if my kid has a classified disability, I'll get even more benefits" tenet. It's almost impossible to weed those out who are gaming the system in such a manner and even harder to prove it happens. As with any government measure of austerity, there is fraud but the level of which is likely under-investigated and under-reported.
The irony, of course, is that if you're smart enough to game the system, you're likely smart enough to put in honest work and make enough to support yourself and children.
Children are expensive. Obtaining birth control or condoms is just as easy as picking up something as the dispensary.
The SNAP cuts probably won't do much other than become a campaign issue and further the "America is an evil place" rhetoric from the more progressive lunatics (oops, that's a redundancy) who run for office.
Don’t forget, Trump actually signed a Bill that was stripped almost bare by our Members of Congress and Senate. He got what he could on our behalf, a still impressive list of improvements.
This is a post about the changes the law makes to SNAP. It is the first in a series in which I I intend to write about the other changes as well.
I hate to say, but as a former educator, I somewhat agree with you. There is a segment of the population that thinks that way, but it’s generations deep and I don’t see how it can be changed except through aggressive birth control education and free medical support, and we know that isn’t going to happen. Babies get dumped on grandparents (or grandma alone) to raise while mom lives in a fantasy of being saved by a baby-daddy and his flashy BMW. Until we offer the poor some life changing educational options and a path to a possible skill based career that offers a living wage we are generating a portion of society that is trapped in ignorance and poverty. I don’t see this administration offering any options, but rather making sure the poor stay poor and the rich get richer, and the middle class pays for it all.
Trump is heartless and a thug. Read the Beatitudes and compare to Trump
why would anyone want to have kids in today's america
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I agree- its become a business.
Clinton killed Aid to Dependent Children.
Obama signed the budget with the largest cut in the history of the Food Stamp Program.
There are almost 50 million people on food stamps. We have an unemployment rate of 4.1% and a workforce participation rate of 62.4%. The last JOLTS survey said there were 8 million job openings. Something is wrong here why so many on food stamps?
Gary W. Gorman:
Do many of you know who receives these benefits? Foster Children. As many of you know, my wife and I were foster parents for several years and we adopted three of the children we fostered.
For the most part, we fostered high-risk, hard-to-place adolescents. At our peak, we fostered a teenage sibling group of three. There were 5 of them in total. The other two were in residential placement but would respite at our home on weekends to keep sibling continuity.
Let me give you a break down of payment, costs and expenditures...
We received $20-30/day per child (depending on age), so approximately $2250/month tax free. Out of this stipend, our food bill doubled from about $300/month to $600. Our water bill tripled from about $100/3 months to $300. We were required to give them a $10 allowance each week, which they had to sign off on to verify, $120/month.
We had to drive them to all appointments, activities, meetings, etc... so our gasoline costs tripled, not to mention the wear and tear on our vehicles. We had to pay (if we wanted) for any damage that was done to our house or possessions, which included smashed televisions, broken doors and windows, punched holes in walls, etc...
Two of our foster children required eyeglasses. We had to pay for them. Any and all medical care not covered by Medicare, were our responsibility. Granted, most times Medicare covered the cost, but a few times it didn't. We were required to enroll them in extra-curricular activities and pay the cost- $60/week each for the Boys and Girls Club, totaling $720/month. We had to pay for Child-care and Babysitting. I was working 2nd shift and Cathy was working first shift, but there was a 2 hour gap between our schedules. A member of this group used to be our babysitter for 10 hours/week, $150/week.
The foster care agency provided $250 every quarter as a clothing allowance per child. The clothes had to be purchased new. If we found good bargains at thrift stores, we had to pay out of pocket, which we did often.
We also bought them Christmas presents, Birthday presents, Easter presents, took them on vacation with us 2x/year, again, at our expense. When we would take them on vacation twice/year to the Jersey shore, foster care regulations stated that foster children of the opposite sex were not allowed to sleep in the same bedroom, so we couldn't rent a two bedroom suite with three queen beds. We either had to rent a three bedroom suite, or what we did mostly was rent two suites- I would bunk with the guys in one room and my wife would bunk with the girls in another. Again, at our expense.
I was glad that they received Medicare and SNAP benefits so they could get free lunch and medical coverage. We lost money every month providing foster care, but I would do it all over again.
Requiring able-bodied individuals to work 20 hours per week is violence.
Thank you for helping these kids. I don’t think any of the proposals put forth would affect foster children. The bill is 940 pages long, and maybe I’m incorrect but I don’t think any of the cuts would affect these kids. We need more people like you thank you!
I think the proposed work requirements and other changes are pretty centrist positions taken by democrats in the past, this was before their party went full blown socialist. Our economy is at full employment there is no reason to have so many people on government aid other than buying votes.
Thank you. You're incorrect.
We need more people like you.
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