CCAGW Annual Ratings

Farm Programs -- SNAP Benefits Work Requirements

Description: 

McClintock, R-Calif., amendment that would reduce work-requirement exemptions from 15 percent to five percent of SNAP benefit recipients; would reduce the qualifying age of children from three-years-old to six-years-old with respect to work requirement-exempted parents; would set the same hour-per-week work requirement for married parents as for single parents; and would require employment and training program participants to have their work eligibility electronically verified through the E-verify system.

Vote Number: 
House Vote 195
Bill Number: 
HR 2
CCAGW Position: 
Yea
Vote Results: 
Rejected in Committee of the Whole 83-330 : R 83-145; D 0-185