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“More lawfully present noncitizens should be able to qualify for federal public benefits, health care, food assistance, housing help, and health insurance premium tax credits when they meet the program's other rules.”
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“Food aid eligibility should be narrower and states should pay more of the cost of running the program.”
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“Households should get automatic SNAP eligibility through another benefit only if that benefit is need-based, lasts at least six straight months, and is worth at least $50, and SNAP applicants or recipients should have to cooperate with fraud investigations to keep eligibility.”
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“Lawfully present noncitizens should face fewer immigration-status barriers when applying for SNAP food assistance, while still meeting the program's income, household, work, and residency rules.”
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“SNAP should require more people ages 16 to 64 who are considered able to work to register for work, work enough hours, join training, or take other work-related steps, while keeping exemptions for pregnancy, medical inability to work, caregiving for young children, some students, treatment, enough current work, or another work program.”
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“People in especially unstable situations should be able to keep food help without meeting work rules.”
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“Food aid should do more to move adults toward work and long-term independence, while still making sure people can eat.”
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“SNAP work rules should apply to more older adults over time, new exemptions should protect homeless people, veterans, and some former foster youth, and states should have fewer flexible exemptions from those work rules.”
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“States should be able to ask for SNAP work rules to be paused in places with high unemployment or too few jobs, and federal law should keep a way to pause some SNAP work rules during major emergencies.”
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