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This year Florida SNAP recipients will receive a waiver of the work requirement. The waiver has been in place since 2009, and has been renewed annually.
It used to be that able-bodied adults who are younger than 50 and without a dependent had to spend 20 hours a week working productively if they wanted to continue drawing food-stamp benefits longer than three months. Congress waived that requirement in 2009 as a result of the Great Recession.
But now that the economy is humming, and unemployment is down why is the work rule exemption still in place?
It used to be that able-bodied adults who are younger than 50 and without a dependent had to spend 20 hours a week working productively if they wanted to continue drawing food-stamp benefits longer than three months. Congress waived that requirement in 2009 as a result of the Great Recession.
But now that the economy is humming, and unemployment is down why is the work rule exemption still in place?