Posted on 11/21/2019 3:38:41 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
About 50,000 Cook County residents who receive food stamps are going to have to find jobs next year — or risk losing their benefits.
Starting Jan. 1, food stamp recipients in Cook County who are able-bodied, under the age of 50 and not living with children or other dependents will be restricted to three months of food assistance in a three-year period unless they work at least 80 hours a month. They can also meet the requirement by participating in a work-related activity, such as job training or volunteering.
The vast majority of Illinois’ 1.8 million SNAP recipients — most of whom are either elderly, children or people with disabilities — are unaffected by the change. But it will be a huge shift in Cook County, where 50,000 of the county’s 826,000 food stamp recipients will be subject to work requirements for the first time since the federal rules went into effect in the mid-1990s.
State officials and social service groups worry people who struggle to find or keep jobs will be driven out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP or food stamps, leaving them hungry and putting pressure on food pantries. They say there isn’t enough federal funding to help connect them with jobs.
“Quite frankly, a lot of the folks who are not able to meet those requirements will not participate in the program and just drop out,” said Grace Hou, secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services. Single adults receive, on average, $200 a month in food aid.
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50,000 food stamp recipients in Cook County may have to find jobs starting Jan. 1 — or risk losing their benefits
PING!
So, if they find a job they still get benefits? Who writes this crap?
Gee, I thought there wasn’t anyone left to employ so we need foreign workers??
Never fear.... Gavin is here.
Grab ANTIFA and go after the politicians. Your predicament doesn’t concern them. They live LARGE.
Racist!
So, if they find a job they still get benefits? Who writes this crap?
This is how you get people off of the government dole
How many are on food stamps in Cook county
Anyone remember the tv series Dobie Gillis?
The beatnik Maynard G. Krebs character (Bob Denver) when anyone suggested gainful employment would shout out “Work!?!?”
Wrong Cook County.
I see women here in Colorado driving Escalades using SNAP cards.
It is indeed racist!
Destroying careers of such upstanding Americans is so unAmerican!
Do they or do they not have tattoos?
“Introduce me to that big blonde
She’s got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She’s wearing Ambush and a French twist
She’s got us wild and she can tell
She loves to limbo that much is clear
She’s got the right dynamic for the new frontier”
Does spending 20 hours a week in nail and hair salons count?
Grab ANTIFA (by the p-—y) and go after the politicians (too) (and cut all their family jewels off).
A lot of these folks sell their EBT cards for cash to buy drugs. This is huge.
And it’s Dems doing it to Dems.
How fitting.
Hey, never heard of that. Is it a song?
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