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SNAP Employment & Training witnesses press bipartisan fixes to prevent training income from cutting benefits
Summary
Providers from the Center for Employment Opportunities and Hope Ministries urged Congress to pass two bipartisan fixes — a temporary earnings disregard for paid training and removal of felony drug bans — to prevent paid SNAP E&T stipends from reducing recipients’ benefits and to expand program access.
Supporters of SNAP Employment & Training told the House Agriculture Committee on Oct. 12 that program design choices can either help people gain steady employment or inadvertently force them to choose between training and basic needs.
Sam Schafer, chief executive officer of the Center for Employment Opportunities, urged passage of two bills he said would fix known problems in current SNAP E&T rules. First, the Training and Nutrition Stability Act would disregard temporary earnings from paid training and transitional jobs when calculating SNAP eligibility and benefits, Schafer said. He described a frequent scenario in…
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