A new GOVERNMENT study, from the Congressional Research Service, shows that since the Stimulus lifted a key work requirement, the number of people on Food Stamps has doubled. Nancy Pelosi insisted on lifting the requirement.
via Fox News
…The report from the Congressional Research Service was sent last week to House Republican Leader Eric Cantor. It comes as House Republicans prepare Thursday to try and block a separate work requirement waiver being sought by the Obama administration for welfare recipients.
The CRS study dealt with the work requirement for a particular class of food-stamp recipients — “able-bodied adults” between 18 and 49 years old who have no dependents. Typically the food stamp program requires that group to work or participate in a training program at least 20 hours a week to continue receiving benefits after three months. The stimulus law, though, allowed states to suspend the rule from April 2009 to October 2010 — and most states did.
In that time, the number in that group surged.
The CRS study showed that in fiscal 2010, the last year for which data was available, the number of food-stamp recipients in that group was at nearly 3.9 million. That’s up from 1.9 million in 2008.
Though food-stamp enrollment was already rising at the time in part due to the recession, the study noted the number in this group “increased more rapidly than the overall caseload.”…
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