Trump Administration Enforcing Law Introduced Under Bill Clinton to Cut Food Stamps

By: Jarrod Horton

Staff Writer

A lot of low income families are feeling the crunch of a bill signed by Bill Clinton in 1996. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRAWOA) was implemented under the so call premise that it would end “welfare as we know it.” One of those provisions of the PRAWOA was that adults between the ages of 18 and 49, with no dependents and not disabled were required to work at least 20 hours a week or be engaged in some kind of work or education training. Under the law, an individual has three months to comply or they will lose their benefits.

These people are referred to as able bodied adults without dependent or ABAWD. Even though the number of ABAWD’s make up a small percentage of welfare recipients; the Trump administration is still slashing those who receive benefits at a rapid pace. For instance, in the state of Georgia, only 8 percent of the recipients are ABAWD. However the number of people not getting food stamps have increased each month. According to  wsbradio.com, from October 2017 through March 2018, the state removed an average of 356 people a month from food stamps for failure to meet the work requirement. The following six months, from April through October of this year; they have removed 8,000.

The Trump administration is using the PRAWOA  law to cut those people food stamps. The process could continue as Trump has made it clear he wants funding for his border wall. To read more about this story click here.

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