WASHINGTON – The Trump administration will require millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to recertify their information, part of a broader effort to overhaul the food aid program, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Newsmax Thursday.
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On Rob Schmitt Tonight, Rollins said she plans to “have everyone reapply for their benefits, make sure that everyone … is literally vulnerable and can’t survive without it.” She cited data from 29 red states showing 186,000 deceased individuals were still receiving SNAP payments and noted cases of recipients collecting benefits in multiple states.
Rollins said the administration has arrested roughly 120 people committing SNAP fraud and called the effort a priority under President Trump, aiming to “fundamentally rebuild this program.” It is not clear when or how the reapplication process will be rolled out, or whether it has received final approval to proceed.
BREAKING – Sec. of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has just announced that the entirety of SNAP will be rebuilt and that all users will have to reapply to prove they genuinely need it. pic.twitter.com/V44xlPRZKh
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I work with people in the frum community who need SNAP to survive. They literally did not have money to buy food during the govt. shutdown. I think SNAP should not pay for junk food like cookies and candy. But this program is a lifesaver for many people who are destitute, mentally ill, unenployed for many reasons. Rich people like Trump cannot understand that many people are really genuinely destitute and need help to buy food to survive. .
It is a good start to verify who is utilizing these S N A P dollars and to eliminate fraud !
186,000 across 29 states may sound like a lot, but out of how many recipients? approximately 42 million. that’s only about 0.5%. the other 99.5% will just reapply, and life will go on.
Herr Trump will do anything to hurt fellow Americans. Ugh
In an interestring segment from NPR they noted that during the shutdown when people didn’t receive their snap, less food was purchased and grocery stores were forced to lower prices. In other words snap hurts the middle class. It increases demand for food whicih results in higher prices.
SNAP programs are not only rife with fraud, but they over generously provide food for recipients that they ultimately spend more than higher income homes on food purchases. Many of them use the money to purchase unhealthy and overpriced processed food and snacks. Even more of them choose to stay unemployed because what they will make in employment is less than they make in accumulated benefits. That should never be the case. Benefits should not exceed minimum wage income. So not only I believe people should not be eligible for snap if they are healthy and working age except maybe for short periods. (Like between jobs etc)