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Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps
nytimes ^ | 08/15/2021

Posted on 08/15/2021 2:38:37 PM PDT by devane617

The jump in benefits, the biggest in the program’s history, comes after a revision of the initiative’s nutrition standards that supporters say will reduce hunger and better reflect how Americans eat. Under rules to be announced on Monday and put in place in October, average benefits will rise more than 25 percent from prepandemic levels. All 42 million people in the program will receive additional aid. The move does not require congressional approval, and unlike the large pandemic-era expansions, which are starting to expire, the changes are intended to last.

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Where is the money coming from? All this will do is drive up prices for those of us not part of these programs yet live on a budget.
1 posted on 08/15/2021 2:38:37 PM PDT by devane617
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To: devane617

Didn’t the Dems just get $4.7 trillion


2 posted on 08/15/2021 2:40:13 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: devane617

Socialism...ain’t it great!


3 posted on 08/15/2021 2:41:27 PM PDT by servantboy777
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"Under rules to be announced on Monday and put in place in October, average benefits will rise more than 25 percent from prepandemic levels. All 42 million voters in the program will receive additional aid and pre-indicated mail in ballots to keep the benefits coming."

There. Fixed it.

4 posted on 08/15/2021 2:46:21 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: devane617

Need to spend all that higher tax revenue on something.


5 posted on 08/15/2021 2:47:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: butlerweave

Hasn’t been passed yet


6 posted on 08/15/2021 2:47:39 PM PDT by Bayard
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“Hasn’t been passed yet”

It does not need to be passed...read the article


7 posted on 08/15/2021 2:48:59 PM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Bayard

“The move does not require congressional approval, and unlike the large pandemic-era expansions, which are starting to expire, the changes are intended to last.”

From the article.


8 posted on 08/15/2021 2:49:39 PM PDT by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Bayard

Yeah, Graham and romney will put a stop to it./s


9 posted on 08/15/2021 2:49:51 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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people who get food stamps should not be allowed to vote


10 posted on 08/15/2021 2:52:47 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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To: devane617

So biden gives food stamps as he causes the death of those that helped us in Afghanistan .

God Bless our Troops.


11 posted on 08/15/2021 2:53:48 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: devane617

I was responding to the 4.7 T not regarding the Food Stamps


12 posted on 08/15/2021 2:57:25 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: dynachrome

Regarding the 4.7t budget package I was replying about? I doubt that too.


13 posted on 08/15/2021 2:59:33 PM PDT by Bayard
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AKA vote buying.


14 posted on 08/15/2021 3:01:15 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: devane617

Everything they put their hand to, fails.
Not only fails... but absolute debacle.
They feed themselves only.. and choke on the results.


15 posted on 08/15/2021 3:02:04 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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Come on man..... the illegals gotta eat too.


16 posted on 08/15/2021 3:06:57 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Right...

So what are YOUR options when social security is $600 a month and they tell you medicare is now going to yank $140 of that.

Try living on $460 a month lately?

And you think I shouldn’t have a vote because of that...

I won’t say what I’m thinking...


17 posted on 08/15/2021 3:11:23 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (The slave does not dream of freedom, the slave dreams of being master.)
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“and they tell you medicare is now going to yank $140 of that.”

When did that happen?


18 posted on 08/15/2021 3:36:08 PM PDT by Beagle8U ("Jim Acosta pissed in the press pool.")
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To: SteelPSUGOP

That brush is broad-and that statement is judgemental, given the facts about those who get food stamps-even here in the middle of nowhere, I have neighbors who are on a fixed income due to a catastrophic injury-hopefully they will recover enough to ditch the wheelchair and return to work, but there is no guarantee-you think they don’t have the right to vote because they have to eat?

And there is also the owner of a tourist trap-just a market stall that she/he runs alone to supplement a disabled veterans’ pension or social security that is their only other income-during the scamdemic, the tourists don’t come, money doesn’t get made-so they will be limited to maybe $1900 at the most-in the middle of Bidenflation-so it is either food stamps or dog food for dinner-they can’t vote, either? Those are the people who really do deserve food stamps-and the right to vote-not their fault they are severely disabled or that the pandemic caused lost business and money-put them 1st, then throw out the illegals and welfare queens...


19 posted on 08/15/2021 3:46:04 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Beagle8U

It has always been like that-pay into medicare until you are 65, then you are on mediscare, and about $140-$150 average is deducted from your check before it ever hits the bank-you never see it-it isn’t “free” health insurance and never was-then you pay for your secondary coverage out of your own pocket-I’m fortunate enough to have Military Tricare PPO for secondary, and I choose to live as a naturalist-but not all secondary is that good-and if you are still working, own a business, etc, you are still paying in, too-mediscare is paying for something you supposedly already bought...


20 posted on 08/15/2021 3:59:51 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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