Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.
The Trump administration will require millions of low-income people to reapply for food stamps as part of an effort to crack down on “fraud,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
USDA did not immediately respond to a request to clarify a timeline for Rollins’ new plan or how it differs from current state-level requirements for participants to reapply for the program.
Does the USDA plan to process applications for the estimated 41.7 MILLION people who recieve SNAP benefits at once, after they all reapply at the same time? And they think that not only can they do that, but that they can do it with greater scrutiny than the first time they applied when their wasn’t a manufactured overload of work?
Sure. They’ll print out each application and they’ll fall straight into a shredder. “After careful consideration, we have elected not to accept your application.” emails will be sent immediately upon application submission.
Oh no, not immediately. You’ll have to wait a few months to get that result.
Don’t the states handle this in the first place?