House Farm Bill's SNAP Changes Are a Bad Deal for States and Low-Income Households
May 15, 2018
May 15, 2018
WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities issued the following news release:
The House Agriculture Committee farm bill would impose new mandates on states, limit state flexibility, and make the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) more complicated to administer. These changes would increase state costs and significantly undermine almost two decades of progress in simplifying, streamlining, and modernizing SNAP (which until the 2008 farm bill was . . .
The House Agriculture Committee farm bill would impose new mandates on states, limit state flexibility, and make the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) more complicated to administer. These changes would increase state costs and significantly undermine almost two decades of progress in simplifying, streamlining, and modernizing SNAP (which until the 2008 farm bill was . . .