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 Maines 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
‘trans-generational dependence’...That is an excellent label for a huge national problem. I’ve claimed for some time that welfare needs to skip a generation. If you have been a welfare child, you are not eligible to be a welfare parent.
Governor John Engler did this in Michigan about 30 years ago. People were just dropping dead in the streets.
No. despite those dire predictions, there were zero deaths attributed to starvation.
Keep up the good work Gov. LePage
“He would have better luck eliminating Collins.”
_________________________________________________
LePage and Collins are both republicans, although they are from opposite ends of the spectrum in regards to their politics.
LePage recently said that Collins was “finished” in Maine. I hope so!
Collins is up in 2020, a presidential year when more people turn out, whereas Angus King us up in 2018.
2018 may be a three-way race: LePage, Angus King running as an independent, who caucuses with the dems; and a democrat candidate.
When MI had Engler, he did the same with same results.
Then, the Dems got back in and same sh— different day.
“Firewood delivered, furniture moved, etc.
No, you got it wrong, THAT’S for those on disability.
Plenty of those around here, too.
Get yourself the “right” doctor and a lawyer and you’re set for life.
24 hours A MONTH!!!! REALLY it should be 24 hours a week!!!!
WE NEED to work HARD to get LePage in !!!!!! Then in 2020 COLLINS HAS TO GO!!!!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.