Time limit on food stamps will disqualify 1 million people

Roughly 1 million people – 2 percent of current enrollment – will be cut off of food stamps during 2016 as states re-impose the three-month limit on benefits to unemployed adults from ages 18-50 who are not disabled or raising children, says the http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=5251 The think tank says the three-month limit was waived in many… » Read More

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