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Daniel J. Willis
@BayAreaData
I didn’t know this but it’s in there and it’s insane. You’re required to work to get food stamps, but are ineligible if you have a car worth more than $2,250 you use to commute to work. Which is necessary to work if you don’t live on a bus route.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Or let’s talk about food stamps and cars! This is one of the wildest rules to me. If you have a busted car that’s worth a less than $5k (say, to drive to that work req), it can preclude you from food stamps. See how these “rules” start to stack up? fns.usda.gov/snap/facts
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Sam Lowry
@SamLowry19
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@BayAreaData
What’s the problem? The thousands of govt welfare programs like this one are supposed to have limits, rules so they are not abused & so not all qualify. It’s supposed to be for the truly needy, not everyone. & when you’re on the program you’re supposed to wanna get off it.
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Daniel J. Willis
@BayAreaData
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It's the impossibility. You need to work but you can't own a car to get to work? Plus I'm not sure how a car counts as a liquid asset toward the pool in the first place. None of it makes a lick of sense, rules at least need logical consistency.
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Edward Anderson
@ReadWryt
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@BayAreaData
Am I reading this wrong, or is it saying that if you use the car for your daily commute, say to the office you work in, then it doesn't count against your obtaining SNAP...but if you use it to drive all over the county installing windows on houses, it's counted against you...?
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