According to the left-wing Center on Budget & Policy Priorities [CBPP], up to 4million of those who will lose eligibility are able-bodied adults without dependents [ABAWDs]between the ages of 18 and 50. This results because the House bill will require states to follow the 1996 welfare reform law’s restriction on eligibility for this group unless these beneficiaries obtain employment, participate in job training activities, or perform voluntary community service activities in exchange for their benefits.
The CBPP also projects another 1.8 million beneficiaries may lose eligibility because their incomes and assets are higher than those allowed under current law provisions of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP]. Any public assistance program must have a cutoff point for eligibility. The House bill does not change the cutoff points in current law, but rather eliminates loopholes which have let people whose monetary resources are above these eligibility standards into the program regardless of the fact that their earnings or savings are higher than the legal limits.
If the idiot signs the bill....
