WASHINGTON ― The Republican food stamp plan would cut benefits by billions of dollars, but it would also create a new database of food stamp recipients, a new job-training bureaucracy and an expanded child support enforcement regime. The new rules would require more SNAP recipients to log at least 20 hours per week of work or participation in a state scheme. Parents applying for benefits would be required to cooperate with Child Support Enforcement, a federal-state program that can track down noncustodial parents and make them pay child support to the custodial parent. States already have the option to require SNAP recipients to do this, but only six do. The CBPP, however, calls it a privacy risk, since it would contain personal information about SNAP recipients.

Source: Huffington Post May 02, 2018 19:07 UTC