Every year we must renew our insurance policies. Why not require SNAP renewal?

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What’s the current renewal process?

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What’s the current renewal process?

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I have no idea. But you can bet your very last dollar that with every renewal there is a voter registration card attached!!

Vote for people in Congress willing to push reform in these things.


Or don’t.

Snap doubled during the 2007 financial crisis. It was meant to help those out of work short term. You should have to prove your need every 6 months. Same for the massive crooks involved with disability. It wouldn't hurt for Trump to shift some folks from worthless positions to disability fraud investigation. The amount of fraud would probably make even the most liberal person ill if we knew the true numbers.

Logical fixes don't get people reelected.

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There is also an income threshold to report. So, if you make more than $X you have to report.

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What happens with this is that the beneficiary will work a low-end, part-time job until that threshold is met. Then they'll quit their job until the end of the reporting period.

For example, they work at Burger King from Jan to Sept, earn $8000 working part-time, then quit from Oct-Dec so they don't go over their threshold & can keep getting, say, $500/mo in "benefits." Why would they continue working if it'll be a financial net-negative for them?

Then Jan of the next year, they'll apply at Wendy's and get hired. Because they will see that they'll get 9 months out of a part-time employee.

This is the lie of "they work" and are trying.

They have renewals multiple times a year. Lots of misinformed people here!