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发帖数: 3803 | 1 白宫泥猴子才不管票蛆的死活。
州长至少让那些白吃的至少活动一下。
应该让他们清除满街的垂汪！
Ohio Gov. Kasich: Able-bodied Adults Will Work for Food Stamps
SNAP recipients will spend 20 hours a week working, training for a job, or
volunteering.
by
PAULA BOLYARD
Bio
September 9, 2013 - 3:00 pm
Governor John Kasich’s administration announced this week that beginning
next month, able-bodied adults in all but sixteen economically depressed
areas will be required to work or participate in job training or volunteer
work as a condition of receiving food stamps. The Dispatch reported:
To qualify for benefits, able-bodied adults without children will be
required to spend at least 20 hours a week working, training for a job,
volunteering or performing a similar type of activity unless they live in
one of 16 counties exempt because of high unemployment. The requirements
begin next month; however, those failing to meet them would not lose
benefits until Jan. 1.
The work requirement is actually a federal regulation, part of the 1996
welfare-reform legislation that Kasich helped pass as chairman of the House
Budget Committee when he was in Congress. For years Ohio has taken advantage
of a federal waiver exempting food stamp recipients from the work
requirements. Though Ohio still qualifies for the federal waiver, the Kasich
administration decided to only extend it to those counties whose two-year
average unemployment rate was more than 120 percent of the national rate
“The governor believes in a work requirement,” Kasich spokesman Rob
Nichols told The Dispatch. “But when the economy is bad and people are
hurting, the waiver can be helpful. Now, fortunately, Ohio’s economy is
improving.”
According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, 1.8 million
individuals received Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)
benefits in the month of June with an average benefit of $137. The state
spent $245 million on the program in June, a decrease of 2.1 percent from
the same time last year.
“It’s important that we provide more than just a monetary benefit, that we
provide job training, an additional level of support that helps put (food-
stamp recipients) on a path toward a career and out of poverty,” said Ben
Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Johnson estimates that 134,000 adults in 72 Ohio counties will be subject to
the new work requirement. They range in age from 18-50, without dependent
children in the home and deemed physically and mentally able to work.
Critics say that many will lose their food benefits because jobs are not
available or because participants lack transportation.
“The rolls will go down because of this. Some people will leave because of
the requirement, and some won’t be able to meet it. It will be similar to
what we saw with (welfare) rolls,” said Joel Potts, executive director of
the Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association, referring to the
2011 federal work requirement for cash assistance. More than 100,000 have
left the welfare rolls since the onset of the new requirement. The number of
Ohioans dependent on the Ohio Works First (cash assistance) program is down
15% this past year alone. | b*****2
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发帖数: 5456 | 3 更没救， 没娃的才去， 这样大家更要瞎操， 就是拖个油瓶也可以避免去这里。 | f******m
发帖数: 231 | 4 这个州长下任不选了吗?
他不理解很多人为了享受福利，拼死不肯脱贫的心态: 没工作机会所以不工作。受职业
训练或做义工先派车接送我再说。贫户生小孩养小孩都有补助又可以免劳役，还不疯狂
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