1. Expansión de los Requisitos de Trabajo para Adultos sin Dependientes (ABAWDs).
Las nuevas normativas propuestas extienden la obligación de cumplir con requisitos laborales (generalmente 80 horas al mes) para los adultos sin dependientes. El límite de edad se incrementa significativamente, forzando a personas mayores que anteriormente estaban exentas a buscar empleo o capacitación.
- The bill would expand work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents. Under the new rules, adults ages 18 to 64 would have to work to maintain their snap benefits. Currently, the work requirement stops at age 54.
- Snap recipients between ages 55 and 64 will now be required to work.
- The bill also increases the work requirements for childless adults receiving snap. Previously, the age cutoff for these work rules was 54. Under the new plan, adults up to 64 years old would need to work or be in a job training program for at least 80 hours a month.
- Work requirements for the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) are being rolled out across the united states. Able-bodied adults (now up to age 64) without dependents are required meet criteria to maintain snap benefits for more than three months in any 36-month period.
2. Redefinición de la Edad de Dependencia y Penalización a Padres Solteros.
Uno de los cambios más controvertidos es la reducción drástica de la edad en la que un niño se considera dependiente para eximir a sus padres de los requisitos de trabajo de SNAP, pasando de 18 a 7 años. Esta medida ha sido criticada por penalizar especialmente a los padres solteros, mientras que las parejas casadas mantienen una exención.
- Republicans created a work requirement provision for snap benefits (food stamps) that lowers the age of what we call a dependent child from 18 to seven years old.
- Under the new proposed house definition for snap, once that child turns 7 — usually someone in second grade — they could no longer be considered a dependent, with one exception.
- Parents with children aged 7 and older would need to meet work requirements to maintain their snap benefits says republicans. The current exemption for parents with children is under 18.
- It carves out an exception to the work requirements for a person responsible for a child 7 years of age or older who is married and resides with an individual who complies with the snap work requirements.” the gop truly wants to trap women in abusive marriages.
- So, if i'm a single mom and my child is over the age of 7, we no longer qualify for snap benefits?? is that correct?
3. Eliminación de Exenciones para Poblaciones Vulnerables.
Las nuevas reglas eliminan exenciones históricas de los requisitos de trabajo para grupos específicos, incluyendo veteranos, personas sin hogar y jóvenes que salen del sistema de cuidado de crianza temporal, forzándolos a cumplir con las horas de trabajo para mantener sus beneficios SNAP.
- Exemptions for veterans, homeless individuals and former foster youth are being eliminated, which could affect about 1,500 people in cuyahoga county.
- Veterans, however, have been exempt from those rules — but that’s about to change.
- Effective nov. 1, veterans, the homeless, recent foster care youth and adults ages 54-64 are no longer exempt from work requirements to receive food benefits for themselves and their families through snap.
- The law also makes it more challenging for areas with higher unemployment rates to qualify for snap work requirement waivers, and it eliminates work requirement exemptions for veterans, homeless people and certain former foster youths.
4. Consecuencias Anticipadas y Críticas a la Política.
Los críticos argumentan que la expansión de los requisitos laborales no aumenta el empleo, sino que actúa como una barrera burocrática que resulta en la pérdida de beneficios para millones de personas, incluidos niños y familias trabajadoras con salarios bajos. Se estima que la mayoría de los beneficiarios ya cumplen con los requisitos existentes o tienen impedimentos legítimos para trabajar.
- Work requirements are just a bureaucratic hoop which increase program costs and reduce access.
- Work requirements expansion would cut 2.7 million families and 5.4 million people off of snap.
- 80% of those on snap already meet the existing work requirements. The rest are disabled,65,or have caregiver responsibilities.
- Work requirements don’t work. In fact, work requirements on medicaid and snap increase unemployment and decrease hours worked by those using those programs.
- The goal is not to ensure people are working, it’s to limit access to food assistance.