Comment by rayiner
3 hours ago
Most people aren’t “working non stop.” Out of non-disabled SNAP recipients with children, only 10% work full time, and only 33% work more than 20 hours a week: https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-f... (table a.26)
Most of the people I know who work two or more jobs also do not get SNAP. Sometimes, it’s pride, and sometimes, it’s logistics.
My sister is on SNAP; it took hours, literally, for me to sign her up, and I’m quite “technically savvy” lol
And every year the renewal takes at least two hours in NYC.
There is so much context here that you’re missing — have you ever been poor before?
Everyone in my wife’s family grew up poor and many still are. My wife lived in a converted barn for part of her childhood.
Regardless, the data is the data! Only 10% of parents on SNAP work full time.