by Anita Wadhwani, USA TODAY NETWORK, Tennessee - Tennessee will reinstate work
requirements for food stamp recipients a decade after they were eased
during the height of the economic recession, Gov. Bill Haslam announced
Monday.
In most Tennessee counties, able-bodied
adults without dependents will have to put in at least 20 hours per week
on a job, an approved volunteer program or a qualified education or
training program to get benefits. The measure goes into effect Feb. 1,
but recipients will have 90 days from that date to comply with the new
rules.
The requirements are expected to impact
58,000 of the approximately 1 million Tennesseans getting the grocery
buying assistance, according to a news release. About 36,000 people who
are able bodied and without dependents are already meeting the work
requirements while getting food stamps. (read more)
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