Posted on 11/12/2012 11:50:23 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Benefit to fall $50 a month starting in January
Ohio families receiving food stamps could get an unwelcome surprise come January: $50 less every month in assistance.
For the 869,000 households enrolled in the program for the poorest Ohioans, that could amount to about $520 million annually out of the grocery budgets.
Because of the way the federal government calculates utility expenses for people receiving the benefit, a mild winter nationwide last year, and a lower price for natural gas, many families could experience a significant cut in aid, those familiar with the program say.
Recipients should get a letter from the state Department of Job and Family Services this month explaining the change, said Ben Johnson, a spokesman for the agency.
Meanwhile, food banks and others that distribute food assistance are bracing for increased demand.
“They are going to increase hunger among our most vulnerable — working families, seniors, children, and persons with disabilities,” said Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks.
Ms. Hamler-Fugitt said her organization is particularly concerned that some seniors or persons with disabilities who have a low benefit amount could lose all their monthly assistance.
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What the government can giveth, it can take away.
Let the goring of oxes begin.
What do you know...my give a d&^* is busted.
Welcome to the socialist workers paradise. And thanks for your vote. All complaints to be filed at the Gitmo gulag. Don’t forget to bring a pair of clean underwear
All I can say to that is “oink, oink.”
Bring it, bitchez.
Welcome to the socialist workers paradise. And thanks for your vote. All complaints to be filed at the Gitmo gulag. Don’t forget to bring a pair of clean underwear
oh yeah I lurk on DU just to see what they are up too and they are all wailing about those evil rich people that are just too stingy to pay for their employees to have health insurance. they have to blame us because they are too dumb to look in the mirror and see that they did it to themselves.
869,000 / 4,552,000 = one in 5 households in Ohio on food stamps.
(using 2010 census data)
“I should start a cell phone company....”
I was going to go after the “I am Trayvon” market for outerwear.
they will blame John Kasich (which I’m sure is part of the plan)
They own it.
Meanwhile gas prices are killing the budgets of the poor and middle class. High gas prices mean higher food prices. Plus, we feed food to our cars so that our meat prices go up. What a country!
I knew the left would be stunned and outraged when people start finding ways around 0bamacare, like reducing hours, etc.
They are probably stunned and angry that companies are laying people off in the wake of 0bama’s victorious re-election.
Obama will blame Governor Kasich.....and the suck-up press will definitely NOT contradict him.
Yep, and if you really have to buy something? Buy form the red districts in your state only (from non-liberal supporting companies if you can).
Money talks.
Dear Ones,
Praise God from whom ALL blessings flow. May this meal be a blessing to you and evidence of God's love.
Bless us, Oh Lord, and these, thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Donated by a Catholic Republican family.
If conservatives were smart they’d start setting up barters/exchanges on at least a monthly basis.
Let them eat government employees.
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