The House has proposed $125 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamps, over the next 10 years to help balance the federal budget. There are two ways the House Budget Committee plans to accomplish this: removing 11 to 12 million people from the program each year, cutting benefits an average of almost $55 per person per month, or some combination of both. Deciding who will be cut from the program and how will be made entirely by your state's elected officials, funded by a sum of money called a block grant which will provided to each state.
As a constituent, you get to influence how your legislators will vote on what happens to the people who use food stamps. What would you choose for them to support?
