3-30-17 wisconsin dhs head supports work requirement

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The top health official in Wisconsin says the 64,000 adults who lost food stamp benefits because they didn’t meet a work requirement made a deliberate choice and “I don’t think we kicked anybody off.”   Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary Linda Seemeyer made the comment Wednesday during testimony before the Legislature’s budget-writing Joint Finance Committee.  Seemeyer was being asked by Democratic Rep. Gordon Hintz about the people who lost their benefits under the FoodShare program since April 2015. That’s when a state law took effect requiring childless adults to work at least 80 hours a month.  Walker wants to expand a version of that work requirement to adults with children. While 64,000 have lost their benefits the past two years, 21,000 able-bodied food stamp recipients have found work.

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