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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse 2017 Budget Plan Would Slash SNAP (food stamps) by More Than $150 Billion Over Ten Years
http://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/house-2017-budget-plan-would-slash-snap-by-more-than-150-billion-over-tenThe House Budget Committee-approved budget plan would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) by more than $150 billion over 20 percent over the next ten years (2017-2026). A cut of this magnitude would necessitate ending food assistance for millions of low-income families, cutting benefits for millions of these households, or some combination of the two.(1) The committee has proposed similarly deep SNAP cuts in each of its last five budgets. This years budget has two categories of SNAP cuts:...
The cuts would come on top of SNAP cuts that occurred in recent years or are occurring under current law....
Claims that cuts are needed to rein in SNAP are misplaced. As it was designed to do, SNAP expanded to meet growing need in the wake of the Great Recession. But SNAP caseloads and spending have since begun falling. The number of SNAP recipients shrank by 2.6 million people in the three years after peaking in December 2012, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects SNAP spending to return to its 1995 level as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020 under current law.(5)
Roughly 90 percent of SNAP spending goes for food assistance, and most of the rest covers state administrative costs to determine program eligibility and operate SNAP properly. Therefore, policymakers couldnt achieve cuts of the magnitude in the House Budget Committees block grant without substantially scaling back eligibility or reducing benefits deeply, with significant effects on low-income people.(6) Table 1 provides state-by-state estimates of the potential impact.
The cuts would come on top of SNAP cuts that occurred in recent years or are occurring under current law....
Claims that cuts are needed to rein in SNAP are misplaced. As it was designed to do, SNAP expanded to meet growing need in the wake of the Great Recession. But SNAP caseloads and spending have since begun falling. The number of SNAP recipients shrank by 2.6 million people in the three years after peaking in December 2012, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects SNAP spending to return to its 1995 level as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020 under current law.(5)
Roughly 90 percent of SNAP spending goes for food assistance, and most of the rest covers state administrative costs to determine program eligibility and operate SNAP properly. Therefore, policymakers couldnt achieve cuts of the magnitude in the House Budget Committees block grant without substantially scaling back eligibility or reducing benefits deeply, with significant effects on low-income people.(6) Table 1 provides state-by-state estimates of the potential impact.
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House 2017 Budget Plan Would Slash SNAP (food stamps) by More Than $150 Billion Over Ten Years (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2016
OP
Democrats seem to be fundamentally different from republicans. We have our differences but
pampango
Mar 2016
#5
Cut the billionaire and corporate welfare queens off the government teat.
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#6
hibbing
(10,076 posts)1. And increase "defense" spending by how much? n/t
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)3. More than what we last spent
'Cause, you know, fuck the poor and middle-class.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)7. Just a guess, buy probably 150B$ over 10 years.
Well isn't THAT a fortuitous coincidence.
Besides, gotta pay for those glorious F-22s (that don't work).
BeyondGeography
(39,278 posts)2. Vote
Vote, people.
choie
(4,102 posts)4. This is just obscene
I am a social worker and I regularly assist older adults in applying for SNAP in NYC. Many of these older adults are only granted $16/month in SNAP. Yes, $16/month! What can you buy with $16/month in NYC? oh - maybe a loaf of bread, some milk and eggs. and the House wants to cut the program?
pampango
(24,692 posts)5. Democrats seem to be fundamentally different from republicans. We have our differences but
we act like caring human beings which differentiates us from republicans.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)6. Cut the billionaire and corporate welfare queens off the government teat.