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My understanding is that food stamps is federally funded, but administered by the state. I often seen foodstamp eligibility used a marker of poverty, but this
by Gunax 4y ago
My understanding is that food stamps is federally funded, but administered by the state.
I often seen foodstamp eligibility used a marker of poverty, but this is largely an anachronism from the past where foodstamps were reserved for the destitute.
Many states now set the requirement at 200% of the federal poverty level. Which is allready fairly generous--that puts 5 member households as foodstamp eligible if their income is under 70k.
Because eligibility is determined by household size and income, you can have two people living in the same city working the same job, but one is eligible for foodstamps and another is not.
- unethical_ban 4y agoThat last line seems... obvious. One person feeding a spouse and three children will have a harder time than one person feeding themselves, given the same low amount of money.
- Gunax 4y agoSure. I can support needs-based tests. My point is that we shouldn't use the food stamp threshold as signifier of poverty. This is a common tactic that left-wingers use to prove that wages are insufficient, and that companies are exploting society because some full time workers are eligible for food stamps. This fails on 3 fronts: 1. The threshold for food stamp eligibility is sufficiently high that normal wages qualify, eg. 70k. 2. Technically any wage can qualify for food stamps if one's household size is large enough. 3. We also believe in equal pay for equal work.
- yardie 4y agoFPL is $13,500 for an individual. Not sure where you are where $27000 seems livable because I don't think even grad students can get by on that.
- refurb 4y ago$2000/month is more than livable for an individual in a LCOL state.