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Indiana to Start Requiring Food Stamp Recipients Work, Be in Job Training, or Job Hunting
Daily Signal ^ | Oct 22, 2014 | Kate Scanlon

Posted on 11/15/2014 10:24:17 AM PST by upchuck

Next spring, thousands could be cut from Indiana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [Food Stamps].

Indiana has previously waived the federal requirement that SNAP recipients are either employed, actively seeking employment or in training for future employment.

But now the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration has announced that, as of 2015, the federal requirement will be enforced and as a result, approximately 65,000 people will be cut from the program.

According to Fox 59 in Indianapolis, Indiana’s new requirement mandates that “any able-bodied Indiana adult without children will need to be working at least 20 hours a week, be in job training, or searching for employment in order to qualify.”

Rachel Sheffield, a research assistant in Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, said work requirements foster accountability:

Even in good economic times, work rates are low among able-bodied adults on food stamps. About half of food stamp households that include an able-bodied adult perform zero hours of work. Lifting the waiver would mean that able-bodied adults without dependents would be limited to three months of food stamps unless they are working or participating in some type of work program at least 20 hours a week. A work requirement encourages self-sufficiency for those who are able and also helps ensure that benefits are going to those most in need.

Indiana State Sen. Jim Merritt told Fox 59 that the work requirement holds SNAP recipients accountable.

“I support the idea if it’s incentivizing people to go back to work,” said Merritt.

John Whitaker, the executive director at the Midwest Food Bank in Indianapolis, told Fox 59 that one in six Indiana residents uses a food bank or pantry, and that he is concerned about the potential for this demand to increase once current SNAP recipients are cut.

“Sixty-five thousand people would equate to about what it would take to fill Lucas Oil Stadium for a really good game,” said Whitaker.


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To: Steely Tom

“Courts will stop this”

Exactly. Indiana be rassssssist.


21 posted on 11/15/2014 12:05:25 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: blam

“dead-beats will just have more babies, eh?’

Maybe I can rent some babies out and make some $$$


22 posted on 11/15/2014 12:06:49 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: upchuck

I hope Indiana is a bit more restrictive in what constitutes obtaining job training and what constitutes looking for work that Massachusetts is.

When I live in that hellhole, we ran into a woman who was originally from the Philippines. She married a guy who was in the Navy and moved to the United States. She divorced him after she received permanent residency status based on her marriage to the then serviceman. This woman had been in GED training for 16 years. She knew that if she did not fail the GED test, she would have to look for work.

What constitutes looking for work in Massachusetts? Filling out three job applications or mailing a resume to three companies each week.

The woman we know worked odd job for cash only and in the nice weather begged on the street. She would net between $2,000 and $5,000 a week by panhandling which she placed into savings accounts around Boston.


23 posted on 11/15/2014 12:31:17 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Steely Tom

I don’t know; the welfare state has been in serious financial trouble since young whites learned the ropes from their urban counterparts. I see few young whites with children; many of those I do see are golden ticket welfare bastards. The country could afford to have unassimilated urban minorities on the dole; there was enough “makers” to offset the “takers”. Now much of the younger generation of whites have the same aspirations as the ghetto folk; “A job ain’t nuthin’ but WORK!”


24 posted on 11/15/2014 12:33:42 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Why go through formalities?


25 posted on 11/15/2014 1:06:13 PM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!a)
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To: upchuck

With all those millions of jobs Obama and the Democrats brag about, there should be no problem in cutting SNAP 50% in next year’s budget. Everyone should be able to find work in this humming Obama economy.


26 posted on 11/15/2014 1:48:24 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: hal ogen

Disability payments can put you OVER the food stamp threshold requirements even for 1 person.


27 posted on 11/16/2014 6:34:55 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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