Ohioans’ Food Stamp Aid to be Reduced

Blade ^ | November 12, 2012 | Kate Giammarise

[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.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Title should read, "Now That Obama Got Ohioans’ Vote.."

It's bad enough Obama has spent the past four years BUYING VOTES by escalating entitlement giveaways to all-time highs and overturning various Federal Laws to please them.. Now that's he's won the election, he's taking stuff back!!

[Vendome]

Elections have consequences...

[Berlin_Freeper]

Now they might start recounting.

[DownInFlames]

Just wait until SS and Medicare get restructured.

[ltc8k6]

Lucas County is a Dem stronghold...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Even though it’s a Federal program, the Dems will find a way to blame it on the Republican Governor.

[tgusa]

Gee, that 99% of the voting public in those Ohio precincts are gonna be really happy about that.

[Vendome]

Well now, the worm turnx.

See, while the 49% were out to get the 51% that blade cuts both ways.

“The rich” pay their fair share, they keep workimg their butts off, they keep making money and findinf productive things to do.

You, the slothful consumed by your two bit avarice, can only get a COLA or go backward but, you can never go forward or upward.

[C210N]

You’ve served your purpose. And you are disposable. With amnesty, there can be ten of you’ze next time around, that can be promised either the same thing or somethin’ else.

[Vendome]

LOL... Good idea....

[dfwgator]

I figure the best revenge is to make money off of the Obama voters, it’s like taking candy from a baby.

[Vendome]

Well....Just Darn....

[Vendome]

I should start a cell phone company....

[biggredd1]

looks like the state lottery will be laying off.

[showme_the_Glory]

shadenfreude

[ColdOne]

boo frikin’ hoo.

[Michael Barnes]

I could care less. Have fun Ohio (and America). You voted for this, now you get the whole nine yards.

I will now do everything I can to keep everything I make so NO moocher gets to benefit from my hard work.

[Borax Queen]

I know, I was just about to post that, or cry me a flipping river...

[MrB]

I saw some lib commenting on the IBD editorial website that referred to those looking forward to the crash of the system as “vindictive pigs”.

Yep, we’re vindictive pigs, and we kinda look forward to the entitlement crowd’s wailing and gnashing of teeth.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

I know it’s not really funny per se but.. LOL!!!

[RetSignman]

What the government can giveth, it can take away.

Let the goring of oxes begin.

[madison10]

What do you know...my give a d&^* is busted.

[Vaquero]

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

[Prince of Space]

All I can say to that is “oink, oink.”

Bring it, bitchez.

[Vaquero]

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

[chiya]

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.

[concerned about politics]

Yeah, but they can get free birth control pills. They may starve to death, but at least they can have all the sex they want before they die.
Welcome to Obomaworld.
(They need to be more careful about how they vote next time).

[nascarnation]

For the 869,000 households enrolled in the program

869,000 / 4,552,000 = one in 5 households in Ohio on food stamps.

(using 2010 census data)

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I should start a cell phone company....”

I was going to go after the “I am Trayvon” market for outerwear.

[Buckeye McFrog]

they will blame John Kasich (which I’m sure is part of the plan)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They own it.

[petitfour]

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!

[MrB]

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.

[cookcounty]

Obama will blame Governor Kasich.....and the suck-up press will definitely NOT contradict him.

[concerned about politics]

I will now do everything I can to keep everything I make so NO moocher gets to benefit from my hard work.

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.

[Logical me]

This has got to be wrong. If anything the food stamp will increase to prevent a riot like Greece. King Obama will force States to increase the payment to these communists lovers.

[Logical me]

This has got to be wrong. If anything the food stamp will increase to prevent a riot like Greece. King Obama will force States to increase the payment to these communists lovers.

[Ol' Sox]

I am changing things this year – every item I donate to the church food pantry (for the truly needy) will contain a small card wishing the recipient a good meal and then stating that this meal was donated by a Catholic, Republican family, and containing a prayer of Thanksgiving. I want the receivers to know who puts food on their table, both from a spiritual and a corporeal point of view. Something like this:

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.

[EBH]

If conservatives were smart they’d start setting up barters/exchanges on at least a monthly basis.

[dagogo redux]

Let them eat government employees.

[angry elephant]

Let them eat Obamaphones!

[lowbridge]

Another “we’ll tell them after the election” hit.

[rdb3]

Lucas County is a Dem stronghold...

Just like Cuyahoga Co.

The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.

[ShadowDancer]

Apparently the hand that feeds you is now biting back.

[Spktyr]

Oh, no, The One owns this one - it’s a Federal program. States have nothing to do with it.

[Josa]

You’re a better person that me. I want all the hungry dims to just get hungrier. NOT gonna give ‘em anything. Besides, my husband was told he might be laid off so I need to be taking care of my own right now.

[Ouderkirk]

SS and medicare will not get restructured....they will go bankrupt and cease to exist. This will be long after your 401k ad 403b accounts have been seized and converted to a defined benefit program.

[Ouderkirk]

You are a better person that I.

I have stopped giving to charity in every respect. No food to the food banks, not clothes to the goodwill no cash to the salvation army, united way, and any other campaign that seeks donations.

Zero. I am done with it. All the money I would have given to charity is now being spent on ammunition and other things to keep my family healthy and safe when the defecation hits the rotary oscillator.

[upchuck]

I understand and agree with your sentiment, but the numbers are backwards. 869,000 / 4,552,000 = 0.19090509666

[slambid]

That’s 1 in 5! 20%