Sickening: Gov. LePage is now threatening to reject some $376 million a year in food stamps for Maine people because the feds are calling him out over his illegal photo ID mandate. In 2013, the most recent year for which a report is available, Maine paid about $9.7 million in administrative costs, while the federal government paid about $376 million in benefits and administration to provide food assistance to low-income recipients in Maine. If the state ended its participation in running SNAP, all those federal dollars would likely be left on the table, cutting off food assistance to the hundreds of thousands of SNAP recipients.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:32:04 +0000
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