To save thousandths of a percent of the federal budget, Trump wants to throw a half-million children off the school lunch program.
Rep. LaMalfa pockets his farm subsidies, votes to cut food stamps
Food stamps are cut off for households with income of more than 130% of the federal poverty line, or $33,475 per year for a family of four . Household income is calculated after exemptions for certain expenses. Many also do so to avoid the “benefit cliff,” which happens when a modest increase in a family’s income results in a complete cut-off of benefits, leaving the family worse off then when its employment income was lower.For some reason, conservatives have always harbored a special hostility for the food stamp program.
The USDA didn’t bother to assess the administrative impact. Its cost estimates, it said, “do not account for potential state and local administrative costs incurred due to collecting and processing household applications ... and also do not account for any increased responsibility placed on the households to complete and submit a school meals application.”
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