Nope. It's an entitlement, routinely reauthorized. There were some restrictions on immigrants put in in the recent past, but nothing to prevent overall spending from growing in the face of increased eligibility. State governments administer it but don't finance the benefits, so in general there is no incentive for them to restrict benefits. TANF is more of an issue since most of its money comes from a block grant plus a modest recession contingency fund (about $2 billion).
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jim Devine<[email protected]> wrote: > according to US National Public Radio, > One in nine Americans receive > government assistance to buy food, which amounts to 34 million people > receiving food stamps.< > > are there budgetary limits on the issuance of food stamps that might > hit due to increased demand? > -- > Jim Devine / "All science would be superfluous if the form of > appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
