Biden administration agrees to raise SNAP work requirement age to 54. The current requirement applies to adults 49 and younger. Critics say the policy is ineffective and punitive.
the debt limit deal’s exemption of veterans and people who are homeless from SNAP work requirements, but policy analysts said that doesn’t justify imposing the mandates on others.the new SNAP work rules would put “hundreds of thousands of older adults aged 50-54 at risk of losing food assistance, including a large number of women.”
“Doubling down on the existing, failed SNAP work-reporting requirement for adults aged 18-49 without children, this provision ignores the strong evidence that it takes food assistance away from large numbers of people without increasing employment or earnings,” said Parrott. “A large share of low-income adults in this age range are in poor health; many of them will lose basic assistance they need to buy groceries because they aren’t able to meet the work-reporting requirement; and the exemption system, notoriously laden with red tape, won’t work,” she continued. “Decades of experience under the existing policy shows that many of those whose SNAP benefits are taken away should have been exempt.
Progressive lawmakers expressed outrage at the GOP’s proposed work requirements during the negotiation process, but it’s unclear if they will oppose the debt ceiling legislation because of the rules included in the final agreement.
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