Fox News is reporting that some states are finally restore the requirement to get a job for people who are able to work and are receiving food stamps.
In 2009 President Obama allowed states to suspend the requirements put into place during the welfare reform that took place in 1996.
Kansas was the first to act, followed by Maine, after both states discovered people abusing the welfare system.
“I believe most Americans and most Kansans think it’s common sense,” said Andrew Wiens of the Kansas Department for Children & Families. “These are able-bodied adults without dependents. They don’t have children in the home. They’re not elderly, they’re not disabled. These folks should be working.”
Since Kansas reinstated work rules, food stamp rolls
dropped by 20,000 and the incomes of those who left increased by 127 percent, Wiens said.The state also imposed limits on how recipients could use their benefits after finding some enrollees used their welfare cash and food stamps cards on cruise ships.
“Those benefits should be used for necessities,” Wiens said. “You can’t use them at casinos, strip clubs, massage or tattoo parlors.”
Maine followed the Kansas lead in 2014. In the first three months, the number of able-bodied adults without children on food stamps fell by almost 80 percent. It also cracked down on recipients using their welfare benefits out of state after finding hundreds of Maine residents used their EBT cash cards at or near Disney World.
My opinion on this? IT’S ABOUT TIME! Hopefully more states will follow suit soon.
