Able-bodied adults should work in exchange for FoodShare
Badger Institute to push legislation banning waivers of FoodShare work requirements
Institute will also seek enforcement of training requirement
New Badger Institute research tying big increases in the number of FoodShare recipients to state officials’ reluctance to make recipients work today prompted the Institute to push for two new initiatives in the upcoming legislative session.
A push to bar the Wisconsin Department of Health Services from applying for waivers from the federal law that requires able-bodied adults without dependents seeking FoodShare to work. The law would move discretion to seek waivers from the DHS to the Wisconsin Legislature.
A push to fully fund and enforce 2017 Act 264, which requires almost all non-elderly, able-bodied FoodShare adult recipients to work or to participate in the Wisconsin’s FoodShare Employment and Training (FSET) program as a condition of receiving the benefit.
