{"id":15096,"date":"2019-01-22T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=15096"},"modified":"2019-01-23T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:28:27","slug":"the-trump-administration-wants-to-tighten-snap-work-requirements-bypassing-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/the-trump-administration-wants-to-tighten-snap-work-requirements-bypassing-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow<\/a>, North Carolina State University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Trump administration wants to tighten even further longstanding restrictions<\/a> on who is eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The farm bill<\/a>, which gets updated every five years or so, spells out who can participate in SNAP<\/a>, the assistance program previously known as food stamps. The most recent version of this legislation, which President Donald Trump signed into law on Dec. 20, 2018, left out new limits on the eligibility of adults without children. Those limits were part of the House version, but Congress dropped them prior to the bill\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n

But that same day, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed a rule that would restrict access anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having researched food assistance programs<\/a>, I\u2019ve seen that the consequences of having too little to eat are daunting. When people can\u2019t afford food, they may skip meals<\/a>, which leads to increased stress and poor nutrition. For people with chronic diseases like diabetes, meal-skipping can even make them more prone to hospitalization<\/a> when their blood sugar gets too low.<\/p>\n