Subject: Not good enough: Families receive 5 percent less in food stamps - Let them eat Obamacare Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:01 am
Benefits to families on food stamps are being reduced by about 5 percent, or $36 per month for a family of four, starting Friday. The reason: A temporary expansion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program included in the stimulus passed in 2009 is expiring. Meanwhile, Congress is considering further reductions to the program’s budget, which has doubled since 2008 as the economic crisis has led more people to ask for help buying food: