Posted on 02/26/2017 8:00:49 PM PST by Rockitz
Republican Governor Paul LePage dared to begin enforcing Maine's volunteer and work requirements for food stamp (SNAP) recipients to keep their benefits. The end result was more than 9,000 non-disabled adults getting dropped from the program.
As CNS News' Eric Schiener reports, a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) spokesman tells the Associated Press that 12,000 non-disabled adults were in Maine’s SNAP program before Jan. 1 - a number that dropped to 2,680 by the end of March...
The rules prevent adults, who are not disabled and do not have dependents, from receiving food stamps for more than three months unless they work at least 20 hours a week, participate in a work-training program, or meet volunteer guidelines for 24 hours out of the month.
Any one of those three minimums getting met will result in an individual to retain their SNAP food benefits.
DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew said the goal of the requirements is to encourage people to find work.
"If you're on these programs it means you are living in poverty and so the more that we can help incentive people on that pathway to employment and self-sufficiency the better off they're going to be," Mayhew told the Associated Press.
In Maine, once someone loses their benefits, they cannot regain assistance for three years.
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There is so much corruption in the GIMME community, every state could save at least 80% of their free-stuff budget if they started to ask questions and expect things out of recipients.
My mother was a social worker. I saw the inside.
The headline should be that Maine cut its SNAP rolls by 75% just by trying.
Women and children hit hardest...
Yeah but, I thought we had a shortage of those.
Is LePage running for the Senate? He should.
“Is LePage running for the Senate?”
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Yes! Gov. LePage is term-limited in 2018, and he, LePage, intends to challenge “independent” Senator Angus King for his senate seat in November 2018.
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Well, as dear Kenny Bunk might say, these are folks - disabled as they are, certainly are, by trans-generational dependence - might well be much better off down in Connecticut. Now THERE’s a State. Got a fine school theah, too, and they’ll take ya’ Somalis. Fine opportunity theah - you go now...
It is either that or they should not get their speech and voting representation subsidized by me. Speech subsidy is ciolation of free speech. Tired pf these teenage types who cuss at their own parents using their parents’ monies.
The leftist “entertainment” and media kooks have locked themselves out of the halls of power.
I’d like to know how many of these were Somalis living in Lewiston.
I guess they haven’t heard in Maine...
Laziness is now considered a disability.
The problem is the social workers are the crux of the problem. Getting GIMEDATS off of the government threatens their gravy train.
Hiring Social Workers as a “test” in the 1960s led to the current destroyed state of Madison, WI.
No they can't because it cuts into their tv watching-beer drinking-scratch off lotto ticket buying- dope smoking-pill popping time.
I wonder if this includes all the Somalis in Maine? Or, just the citizens?
Absolutely. State and federal expansions and promotions depend on work (ha,ha) load so they recruit more leeches into a corrupt system.
Did the left call him racist yet?
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Not an effective leftist slur in Maine, yet.
So, 9000 voters went to which state instead?
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Probably Connecticut from what I am reading on this board this morning.
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Hopefully the Somalis in Lewiston hardest hit.
Yes! Gov. LePage is term-limited in 2018, and he, LePage, intends to challenge “independent” Senator Angus King for his senate seat in November 2018.
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He would have better luck eliminating Collins
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