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    "ocrText": "Who Will Lose Food Stamps Under the Three-Month Cut-Off? - 3/5/97\nhttp://www.cbpp.org/fswho.htm\nCENTER ON BUDGET\nAND POLICY PRIORITIES\nRevised March 5, 1997\nWho Will Lose Food Stamps Under the Three-Month Cut-Off?\nby David Super\nThe new welfare law requires states to terminate food stamps after three months in any\n36-month period to individuals between the ages of 18 and 50 who are not raising children\nunless those individuals are disabled, working at least 20 hours a week, or participating in certain\nkinds of employment and training programs. (Under certain limited conditions, an additional\nthree-month period could later be provided.) This provision is primarily responsible for the\nlegislation's large cuts in benefits for non-elderly adults who are not raising children. The new law\nimposes proscriptive rules as to what kinds of work programs states can operate for people\nreaching the time limits. For example, no matter how strenuously a recipient is looking for work,\nhe or she would still be cut off upon reaching the time limit. Few slots in the employment and\ntraining programs that states currently operate would be considered sufficient to allow\nparticipants to continue receiving food stamps beyond the time limit. It is uncertain how many\nwork slots meeting the new requirements states will choose to make available to this population;\nthe new law does not require that people willing to work be given the opportunity to do so before\ntheir food stamps are terminated.\nThe Congressional Budget Office estimates that, when fully implemented, this provision will cut\noff food assistance in an average month to over half a million otherwise eligible poor people who\nwould accept a work slot if it were offered to them in an average month. If states expand the\nnumber of work slots available to persons unable to find private employment and seek more\nwaivers for areas with insufficient jobs than CBO anticipated, this estimate may prove high. If,\nhowever, states create few slots to allow these individuals to work off their benefits, the number\nof people denied food assistance is likely to be higher than anticipated.\nA recent USDA study shows that the people who will be affected are quite poor:\nIn 1995, some 59 percent of food stamp recipients between the ages of 18 and 50 who are\nnot disabled or raising children had no income other than food stamps during the months\nthey received benefits.\nAmong those in this group who are not currently employed, average income equals 28\npercent of the poverty line.\nOver 40 percent of this group lacks a high school diploma. People with little education and\nskills generally have a more difficult time finding employment in as little as three months.\nThis group includes large numbers of poor women and individuals over 40.\nSome 42 percent of those affected by this provision are poor women.\n1 of 2\n04/01/97 14:56:05"
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