http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/21/1359263/-Maine-boots-thousands-off-of-food-stamps-for-not-having-jobs-that-don-t-exist?detail=email
More than 6,000 people in Maine are getting more than usually screwed by the hole-riddled U.S. safety net and their state's evil buffoon of a governor:
Gov. Paul LePage (R) decided last year to prematurely reinstate tougher eligibility rules requiring food stamps recipients to work. The state agency that maintains SNAP in Maine launched the change in October, and reports that 6,500 of the state’s roughly 215,000 SNAP beneficiaries had been booted from the program as of the end of 2014, WGME’s investigation found.
A Maine official portrayed the decision as “complying with federal requirements” in an interview with the station, but the federal government offered to waive those requirements for Maine and 36 other states back in May. In those 37 states, economic conditions are so bad that the federal government invited state officials to suspend the work requirement that usually applies to able-bodied adults without dependents who want SNAP benefits. When the economy is healthy and jobs are plentiful, a person with no disability and no one to look after must demonstrate that they are working or in job training at least 20 hours a week in order to get food stamps for more than 90 days in any three-year period. If economic conditions are dire, though, federal officials allow state administrators to waive the work rules for SNAP.
the article doesn't say who or what demographic this was inflicted on but looking elsewhere i found this.
Just as reinstating the work rules doesn’t create job opportunities out of thin air, waiving the 20-hour weekly work requirement rule does not mean allowing indolent people to get food without lifting a finger. SNAP recipients in waiver states still have to comply with a variety of rules regarding their willingness and ability to work. They must accept any reasonable job offer, they may not quit an existing job without good cause, and they must register with state jobs databases, for example.
Similar decisions by political leaders in Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Delaware have put tens of thousands more people on the chopping block. Two governors who have exited the SNAP waiver program early are facing lawsuits. New Mexico Gov. Susanna Martinez (R) decided to reconsider her work requirements push in light of a court challenge, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is being accused of violating his poorest citizens’ civil rights by allowing waivers to continue in rural, mostly-white counties but ending them in the urban counties that house most of his state’s minority population.note the above mention states all have republican governors, yes the same republicans that say they are reaching out and care about the poor while suppressing their vote and denying them food and help if they lose their jobs to the obstruction and destruction of those same republicans. and we are still in January, look forward to more assaults on your life by those same republicans that goes for their base too you've been played.
