“….Imposing a work requirement represents a belief that people on food stamps are lazy, said Ken Regal, executive director of anti-hunger nonprofit Just Harvest. “If that’s the policy of the […]
News Item Types Archives: SNAP/food stamp cuts
Three-month time limit on food stamps to affect many in Allegheny County
A three-month time limit on food stamps for unemployed or underemployed adults ages 18 to 50 who aren’t disabled or raising minor children will apply to most of Allegheny County […]
Jobless rate puts some at risk for food stamps in Pa.
About 30,000 people in Pennsylvania could lose their food stamp benefits early next year — about 8,000 of them in Allegheny County — due to the return of a three-month […]
Letter to the Editor: Criticism misdirected
The editorial “Food stamps: Dependency’s sinkhole” portrayed the one in two able-bodied food stamp recipients who didn’t work for over a month in 2010 as pitifully dependent on the public […]
Calls raised for Pa. to fill food stamp funding gap
The farm bill signed into law last month contained significant cuts in food stamps for Pennsylvania — up to $65 per month for 175,000 households. Governors in at least two […]
Federal farm bill to alleviate food deserts
The farm bill signed into law Friday includes a $125 million initiative based on a program that started in Pennsylvania. The bill authorizes funding for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative […]
Food stamp cuts to hit Pa. harder
A proposed $8 billion in cuts to the food stamp program in the federal farm bill would fall disproportionately on recipients of the program in Pennsylvania and about a dozen […]
Cuts in federal food benefits mean tightened belts for residents and charities alike
Just weeks before Thanksgiving, a time when belts loosen all across the country, nearly 1.8 million low-income Pennsylvanians began tightening their own. On Nov. 1, cuts in the federal Supplemental […]
Vickie Stevenson: “They give you so many hoops to jump through.”
For Vickie Stevenson, a single mother living in Allison Park, getting by on SNAP benefits is all about planning ahead. She’s received food stamps off and on for the past […]
Cuts in food stamps leave more people turning to pantries
Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have been in effect for just one month, but local food pantries already are seeing an increase in need. The 2009 American Recovery […]
