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Ed Bolan at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says between the law's july twenty twenty five enactment and March of this year, over four million people have dropped off SNP. That's close to ten percent of the overall caseload The law now requires new groups of recipients to prove they have a job, like adults without a disability up to age sixty four who don't live with dependent children or who live with kids over age fourteen. Boland says the new requirements also apply to young adults aging out of foster care, veterans, and people experiencing homelessness Historically, we know people lose benefits when they're subjected to that work requirement because they're unable to prove that they're working enough hours to stay eligible. About eighty five percent of SNP households do include a working adult, according to Census Bureau Data Poland says the drop in SnAP recipients is also due to new rules for states. They decide who qualifies and who doesn't, and sometimes they make mistakes, awarding a SNP applicant too much or too little Right now, the federal government pays for one hundred percent of SnapP benefits, but if a state's error rate reaches six percent, they have to pay part of that cost. Gina Plata Nino at the Food Research and Action Center, says that's something the states are taking great pains to avoid. She says they're imposing more requirements for benefits, but staffers are overwhelmed by the additional paperwork Pones are not being picked up because historically state agencies have been underfunded. People who can't get through to state agencies to do that verification lose their Snap benefits ed to thirty two year old Dejon Lymore, He moved to Georgia from Missouri in late twenty twenty four. He'd received SnapP benefits in Missouri but had to reapply in Georgia. He did get a benefit card there, but couldn't log in to activate it. He couldn't get through to his local snap office on the phone, so went in person. And then whenever I did go up there, they would hit you with the oh, we're supposed to like call or try to make an appointment and it's like no one's answering the phone. Limore says he never could activate that card. Even though he tried for a year, the card has expired now. He thinks it had about nine hundred dollars on it, money he could have used to feed his seven year old son to byas Lymore had to leave Georgia and move in with his parents in Kansas after he had a toe amputated due to his diabetes and lost his job helping manage a trailer park Now he has to apply all over again for Snap in Kansas while continuing to look for work. In the meantime, he's eating less to save money. I do a lot of soup bases as well, so tomato soup, chicken noodle soup fru the crackers will must too kind of help fill up as well. I wanted to ask someone at the agriculture department, which runs SNnP, why so many people have dropped off of it. They wouldn't do an interview, but I did get a statement from a USDA spokesperson which says the households receiving SnAap are subject to recertification. and quote Therefore, the number of individuals receiving benefits is constantly changing. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace Everything is in constant reinvention, global dynamics, your industry, your organization, which means your workforce must continuously adapt But it's hard to make confident workforce decisions if your data is fragmented, and it's hard to keep your workforce ready when your processes are slow. Cornerstone is your intelligence platform for workforce readiness. With the insights leaders need, the skills development people want, and AI agents that make action easy. Cornerstone. the intelligence to know, the wisdom to act. Learn more at csod. com slash humanAI. 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This week, we're marking the nation's two hundred fiftieth anniversary by looking back at some of the defining moments and trends that shaped the American economy So far this week, we've covered the nation's first century from its founding through the Civil War After the devastation of that conflict, the United States entered a turbulent period of reconstruction as the country attempted to stitch itself back together politically and integrate four million formerly enslaved Back Americans into the post war economy