Should never have been allowed in the first place!
Should never have been allowed in the first place!
I still can't understand why this was ever allowed in the first place. Everything that voted to allow it or lobby for it should be in jail. For fuck sake, it says a family of four could be given ~$3,300/mo. Are you fucking kidding me? And they can use it on junk food and "snacks"? Fuck no. That should be for healthy food only, no junk food, no soda, no candy.. etc.
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>A Republican state lawmaker plans to bring back a bill next year that, if it becomes law, would opt Wyoming out of paying for junk foods with its grocery welfare money. State Rep. Jacob Wasserburger, R-Cheyenne, confirmed Tuesday to Cowboy State Daily that he plans to bring back a version of this year’s House Bill 323. It would have required the Wyoming director of the Department of Family services to apply for a federal waiver so that federal money used in Wyoming’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) money for struggling families could not be spent on candy or soft drinks. Wasserburger brought that bill to the 2025 lawmaking session earlier this year, and it died when the Senate Agriculture Committee failed to advance it by a key deadline. SNAP offers money for food on EBT cards for low-income households making less than 130% of the federal poverty line, or $3,380 monthly for a family of four.
I still can't understand why this was ever allowed in the first place. Everything that voted to allow it or lobby for it should be in jail.
For fuck sake, it says a family of four could be given ~$3,300/mo. Are you fucking kidding me? And they can use it on junk food and "snacks"?
Fuck no. That should be for healthy food only, no junk food, no soda, no candy.. etc.
Archive: https://archive.today/UK636
From the post:
>>A Republican state lawmaker plans to bring back a bill next year that, if it becomes law, would opt Wyoming out of paying for junk foods with its grocery welfare money.
State Rep. Jacob Wasserburger, R-Cheyenne, confirmed Tuesday to Cowboy State Daily that he plans to bring back a version of this year’s House Bill 323. It would have required the Wyoming director of the Department of Family services to apply for a federal waiver so that federal money used in Wyoming’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) money for struggling families could not be spent on candy or soft drinks.
Wasserburger brought that bill to the 2025 lawmaking session earlier this year, and it died when the Senate Agriculture Committee failed to advance it by a key deadline.
SNAP offers money for food on EBT cards for low-income households making less than 130% of the federal poverty line, or $3,380 monthly for a family of four.
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