The Coming Foodstamp Cut Will Hit 900,000 Veterans

[skews13]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/29/2850751/food-stamps-cut-veterans/

 

 

Benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, will automatically drop come Friday thanks to the loss of additional funds from the 2009 stimulus bill. That cut will hit about 900,000 of the country’s veterans, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

 

“Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011,” CBPP writes. The number varies state to state, with over 100,000 veterans in households that rely on the benefits in Florida and Texas each.

 

The coming cut will range from $36 a month for a family of four to $11 a month for a single person. Food stamps will average less than $1.40 per person per meal next year with the cut. Benefits were already sparse, at just $133 a month on average.

 

Veterans can face a lot of challenges finding work when they return from service. While overall the unemployment rate for veterans is 6.5 percent, those who have served since 2001 to the present have an unemployment rate of 9.7 percent. Nearly one in 10 veterans with disabilities were without employment in 2010.

 

They are also disproportionately likely to live in poverty and to be homeless. In 2010, nearly a million veterans ages 18 to 64 had experienced poverty over the past year. As of 2011, nearly one in seven homeless adults was a veteran and more than four in ten homeless veterans were without shelter.

 

They are therefore heavily impacted by cuts to the social safety net.

 

The automatic reduction in food stamps won’t likely be the last cut, however. House and Senate lawmakers are set to negotiate this week over a bill to continue funding the program, and House Republicans want to cut it by $40 billion, while Senate Democrats have proposed cutting it by $4 billion. If Republicans get their way, as many as 6 million people could be dropped from SNAP.

 

[truthwarrior757]

Think Progress<~~~~~~~LOL

 

I say we make sure the vets in need get benefits and cut the benefits for all the able body losers like you along with all the illegal aliens.

[Golfboy]

Now it's Republican's fault that the economy hasn't recovered, and Obama's stimulus failed.

If Republicans get their way, as many as 6 million people could be dropped from SNAP.

More people are receiving welfare than work full time in this country.

And liberals think this is a sign of success.