Feenstra Helps Introduce Legislation to Expand Work Requirements for SNAP Recipients

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce the America Works Act, which would require able-bodied Americans without dependents (ABAWDs) to work or pursue work-related training or education for at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits.

“Americans who can work should work if they want to receive taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits. SNAP overpayments already cost American taxpayers more than $10 billion every year, and we should not be paying for able-bodied people to collect SNAP benefits without working,” said Rep. Feenstra. “That’s why I helped introduce legislation requiring able-bodied Americans without children to either work or pursue work-related training or education for at least 20 hours each week. I have previously led legislation to establish a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to SNAP overpayments, and this is just another commonsense approach to cutting waste and restoring integrity to the SNAP program.”

In January, Feenstra introduced the Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act, which would strengthen the integrity of SNAP by cutting down on overpayments of SNAP benefits. This legislation would increase the accuracy of SNAP payment error rate (PER) calculations by amending the tolerance level from $54 to $0.

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