I'm not sure why you are getting downvotes for posting this. It's called the Able-bodied and without dependents (ABAWD) requirement and requires that anyone who is not determined to be disabled, incapacitated/unable to work, or caring for a child under 6, is required to work register and seek work employment in order to qualify for SNAP benefits.

Now, it's true that this ABAWD requirement was suspended for a time beginning in 2008/2009, after the market crash, due to high unemployment it has started being phased back in by the states. Kentucky for example reintroduced ABAWD requirements in 2016. I don't believe that every state has restarted ABAWD requirements but it is a federal requirement per the federal Food and Nutrition Services Agency (FNS) which oversees the SNAP program.

ETA: I will add that it is fairly easy to get around the ABAWD requirements but they are there.

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Posted by skullhawk

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Posted on 5/24/17 at 12:53 pm to MFn GIMP

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I will add that it is fairly easy to get around the ABAWD requirements but they are there.

and this is the problem

Remove this allowance altogether

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Posted by The Maj

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Posted on 5/24/17 at 1:01 pm to MFn GIMP

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ETA: I will add that it is fairly easy to get around the ABAWD requirements but they are there.

If it is "fairly easy" to get around the ABAWD requirements, then why do they even exist? The answer is, they were put in place in an attempt to quell the "make them go to work" calls BUT at the same time there were exceptions built into the program AND much of the ABAWD is left up to the States...

In other words, there really is not a requirement and SNAP is still being exploited.

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