Is it possible there are some SNAP recipients taking advantage of the system? I'm sure there are. Is the problem so bad that we need to make life harder for all the other people who truly need that assistance? No, absolutely not. I'm not losing sleep over the possibility that some people might be saving money on groceries. Let them have it. There are so many bigger issues to worry about.

Meanwhile they hand out millions if not billions to their friends with 0 oversight

The rich are absolute demons.

Do not fall for the myth of welfare fraud

It's a good thing a bunch of Dems folded to reopen the government so people wouldn't go hungry.

Good job guys, you got played, again.

Bitch needs to re-apply for his job every year and see how he does.

USDA did not immediately respond to a request to clarify a timeline

Uh huh. So are you going to be providing benefits in the interim or not? There are millions of people involved. I think that it's likely that it will take a long time to reprocess those people.

That just sounds like they want them to pay with money they don't have to get the money they need 'cause they don't have it... WTF

The government finally reopens to a tsunami of applications that need to be processed by a decimated staff.

This is deliberate. It’s punitive. It’s like MAGA draws energy from human suffering, especially from their own people.

Does the USDA plan to process applications for the estimated 41.7 MILLION people who recieve SNAP benefits at once, after they all reapply at the same time? And they think that not only can they do that, but that they can do it with greater scrutiny than the first time they applied when their wasn't a manufactured overload of work?

Yeah, fuck the poor! They've had it too good for too long!

Thanksgiving will be a BLAST this year at my house...

There is absolutely a problem.
The problem is not fraud by the applicants.
The problem is that we allow corporations to pay so fucking little that you can be full-time employed and still need food stamps to feed your kid.

The problem is that rent is up, groceries are up, everything is more expensive, the cost of living is through the roof and a full-time minimum wage income in most places won't even support a single person on a starvation diet.
Making 47 million people fill out another stupid form will not fix this.

Checked earlier, conservative communities are celebrating this.

The fuck?

Now requiring a Mnimum income over $100,000?