Show I FOOD Food stamps undergoing Remember when news editorials called for an end to participation in the food stamp program by those who were not when TV newsmen reported that some people were too poor to buy food and nearly everyone to know someone who had seen a food stamp family loading groceries into an expensive Whether the reports indicated widespread abuse of food stamps as 1 some critics charged or were simply isolated incidents of abuse as others became academic beginning January 1 when the first phase of the new program The new program will reflect beneficial elements of the old program and address criticisms leveled by the general the food stamp users and state and federal agencies responsible for running the Gone will be the requirement that many households purchase an allotment of stamps since this rule kept poor families out of the Benefits will be to aid these families and remove those at upper income Added will be provisions intended to ease access for food stamps for the working poor and other Work rules governing participation by students and the able-bodied will be Incentives will be added for those holding low-paying jobs to keep them |