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Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-1998-0013 Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (if no Time Limit is Placed on the Exemptions)

Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (if no Time Limit is Placed on the Exemptions).

10/01/1998
Resource | FAQs/Q&As | FNS-GD-1998-0007 Balanced Budget Act of 1977 - Q&As Set 2

Balanced Budget Act of 1977 (PL 105-33) Questions and Answers - Set 2

04/23/1998
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-1996-0008 Guidance for States on Use of Discretionary Food Stamp Program Time Limit Exemptions

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 stipulates that able-bodied, childless adults may only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 36-month period unless they work at least 20 hours a week; participate in an approved work or training program; or live in an area that has been waived from the time limit due to either an unemployment rate higher than 10 percent, or insufficient jobs.

08/14/1996
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