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Program SNAP is a critical tool for reducing poverty and hunger while supporting the entire farm and food supply chain from farmers to grocers This committee should stand firm in opposing cuts to SNAP We should...

President and Chief Executive Officer Fair Food Network Ann Arbor MI 31 Watson Faith Montcalm County SNAP Recipient Greenville MI 33 Nugent Jim Fruit Grower and Chairman Michigan Tree Fruit Commission Suttons...are two points I would like to make First produce incentives work They are improving the diets of SNAP participants and increasing farm...

prices and really knock out the ultra filtered market Senator GILLIBRAND Mr Secretary my last issue is SNAP I am very concerned about the House bill I am very concerned that you support it and I will explain...sure there is more strin gent work requirements Most people on SNAP are already work ing In fact if you look at the entire recipients of...

requirements for applicant or participant households in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP The etlective date for the final rule published on January 6 2017 82 FR 20 I 0 was delayed to May...

table and I am very pleased to see the most recent Congressional Budget Office esti mates say that SNAP spending is continuing to decline the right way now saving an additional 24 billion more than previously...Frm 00007 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 C USERS MW42035 DESKTOP DOCS 93029 TXT MICAH 4 put people that are on SNAP or looking for work to work We have...

very important to New York State is the SNAP program It is so important that we have food for our families Some of the work this Committee has done for making sure SNAP gets to rural families using farmers...

Tomatoes In partnership with The Food Trust my team is supporting healthy eating at home too We utilize SNAP Ed to host a four week virtual family cooking workshop called Cooking Beyond the Classroom Each week...

participate in certain means tested federal programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP or who are homelessness runaway migrant in foster care or in Head Start Increasing the multiplier...Currently states and school districts are only required to conduct direct certification for children in SNAP households Schools should be...

the administration and oversight of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or what we call SNAP 2 Investigations by the Department of Agriculture s Food and Nu trition Service the Department s Office...Witnesses here today will provide details but what we have dis covered is that the integrity of the SNAP program cannot be verified In all...

would also like to briefly mention some additional policy areas that we are looking to you for support SNAP and USDA Nutrition Programs In both the 2008 and the 2014 farm bills Congress authorized pilot programs...increase fruit and vegetable purchases by participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP The 2008 farm bill...